{"slug": "meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents", "title": "Meituan launches LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model for long-horizon agents", "summary": "Meituan released LongCat-2.5 on November 2nd, a native multimodal model built for long-horizon agentic work with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion activated per token, according to Meituan's announcement. The model adds native vision to long-horizon coding and ships with a 1M-token API window, with GitHub and Hugging Face releases still to come. Meituan, co-founded by Wang Xing, is pushing frontier-scale agentic coding with low cached-input pricing.", "body_md": "# Meituan launches LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model for long-horizon agents\n\n**Meituan's 1.6-trillion-parameter model adds native vision to long-horizon coding, with a 1M-token API window and GitHub and Hugging Face releases still to come.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n        · Updated \n\nPrimary source: [Hacker News](https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nLongCat-2.5 shows a large platform company pushing frontier-scale agentic coding with native vision, a 1M-token window, and low cached-input pricing.\n\nMeituan, co-founded by Wang Xing, released [LongCat-2.5](https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/?ref=runtimewire) on November 2nd, according to [Meituan's announcement](https://www.meituan.com/news/NN261102280001343?ref=runtimewire). The native multimodal model is built for long-horizon agentic work, with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion activated per token. The release pushes Meituan's model line further into sustained coding work, where an agent has to hold a project together across many steps.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/meituan-longcat-2-5-native-multimodal-agentic-model", "published_at": "2026-11-02 16:06:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-02 19:19:41.806889+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-agents", "generative-ai", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Meituan", "LongCat-2.5", "Wang Xing", "GitHub", "Hugging Face"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-launches-longcat-2-5-a-native-multimodal-model-for-long-horizon-agents.jsonld"}}