{"slug": "meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding", "title": "Meituan releases LongCat-2.5-Preview with image understanding", "summary": "Meituan released LongCat-2.5-Preview on its API platform on September 25, adding image understanding to the company's AI model lineup. According to the model's documentation, LongCat-2.5-Preview can answer questions about images, summarize visual content and handle more complex visual reasoning tasks, and Meituan says it improves coding performance and works with developer tools including Claude Code, OpenCode and OpenClaw.", "body_md": "Meituan made LongCat-2.5-Preview available through its API platform on September 25, adding image understanding to the company’s AI model lineup. The new model can answer questions about images, summarize visual content and handle more complex visual reasoning tasks, according to its documentation.\n\nMeituan also says the model improves coding performance and works with developer tools including Claude Code, OpenCode and OpenClaw. [[LongCat](https://longcat.chat/platform/docs/ChangeLog.html)]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/09/30/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding/", "published_at": "2026-09-30 15:14:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-30 15:21:06.719050+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "computer-vision", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Meituan", "LongCat-2.5-Preview", "Claude Code", "OpenCode", "OpenClaw"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meituan-releases-longcat-2-5-preview-with-image-understanding.jsonld"}}