Meituan releases LongCat 2.5, an AI model made on Chinese chips

Meituan, a Chinese food company, put the open weights of LongCat 2.5 on the internet. This was 1 week after it showed the model. Open weights are model files that all persons can get. The model is for agents, which are software that does long tasks without help, to write code. Meituan says it made the model only on Chinese hardware.

How it works

The files have an MIT licence, and you can use them in your products. Meituan also made a small version that operates on a group of 194 Huawei chips. Meituan gives no instructions for Nvidia chips.

The numbers

In the table of Meituan, LongCat 2.5 gets 88.4 on the Terminal Bench test. Claude Opus 5 gets 89.1. On the test that is not easy, LongCat 2.5 gets 38.5 and Opus 5 gets 53.9.

Not known

Meituan did the tests, and no other group did. The table does not include the new Claude and GPT models. The low price is only for a short time.

Insight: Free models can pull buyers to Chinese chips

On 27 October, Ant Group put an open model on the internet with an MIT licence. Meituan does the same, and it gives instructions only for Huawei chips. This reads as a move to make Chinese chips the first one that persons use with free models. Monitor for more models with instructions only for Chinese chips. If you operate models, check which chips you use.