{"type":"post","id":"meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859","slug":"meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859","title":"Meituan releases LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter native multimodal MoE for long-horizon agentic coding","description":"Meituan has introduced LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model with about 48 billion parameters active per token, aimed at long-horizon agentic work and native multimodal tasks.","retrieval_nugget":"Meituan has introduced LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model with about 48 billion parameters active per token, aimed at long-horizon agentic work and native multimodal tasks. Its release is notable for the training and visual-tokenization details the company discloses, but the supplied material does not establish independent performance or fully document public access terms.","published_at":"2026-11-02","updated_at":"2026-11-07","record_date":"2026-11-02","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["multimodal"],"entities":["Meituan","LongCat-2.5","LongCat-2.0","GPT-5.5","GPT-5.6-Sol","Claude-Opus-4.8","Claude-Opus-5"],"related_patterns":["scientific-agents-need-artifact-evidence"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Meituan now announces the full LongCat-2.5 release, detailing its 1.6T/48B-active architecture, long-horizon agentic training and native visual-token approach; the prior covered 2.5-Preview availability on OpenCode.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/meituan-s-longcat-2-5-preview-on-opencode-a86fea/"],"source_url":"https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5","source_urls":["https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-8ad859.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/multimodal/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal/","title":"Multimodal","reason":"Explore the multimodal topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/multimodal.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}