Owl Alpha

Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 48 billion active parameters per token, available via API for agentic coding and tool use. The model features a 1 m…

Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview, a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese domestic chips without NVIDIA hardware, has become the most-used model on OpenRouter under the alias Owl Al…

A developer tested 10 AI models on 10 agent coding tasks, finding free-tier performance ranged from 76.7% (Owl Alpha) to 10% (Laguna M.1), with the latter producing garbage on 9 of 10 tasks. The paid …