# Meituan releases LongCat-2.0 language model

> The Chinese delivery giant continues its push into open AI with a new text model on Hugging Face.

Published by The Open Weights on Jun 30, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/longcat-2-0-m7er

## Key facts

- Company: Meituan
- Model: LongCat-2.0
- Version: 2.0
- Category: Text / LLM
- Modalities: Text / LLM
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Context window: 262K tokens
- Architecture: LongcatCausalLM
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 3551.7 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-06-30
- Last verified: 2026-07-15
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/longcat-2-0-m7er

Meituan, the Chinese super-app best known for food delivery and local services, has released **LongCat-2.0**, a text-focused large language model now published on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0). The release continues the company's expansion beyond its core commerce business into foundation models.

The LongCat line is part of a growing wave of releases from Chinese technology firms that have made their models openly downloadable rather than gating them entirely behind APIs. As with many of these efforts, LongCat-2.0 ships under a custom license rather than a standard permissive one, so teams evaluating it for production should read the terms closely before building on top of it.

## Why it matters

Meituan is not a traditional AI lab, and its move to publish model weights signals how broadly large-platform companies now see in-house language models as strategic infrastructure. For developers, each new openly available model widens the pool of options outside the handful of dominant Western and Chinese labs.

- The model targets text generation, Meituan's stated primary modality.
- It is distributed openly through Hugging Face for download and inspection.
- Licensing is custom, which carries implications for commercial use.

Detailed specifications — including parameter count, context length, and benchmark results — were not part of the initial record, so the model card itself remains the authoritative reference for anyone planning to test it.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0)

## Sources

- [meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0) — Hugging Face, Jun 30, 2026

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