{"id":240155,"date":"2026-07-02T02:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/meituan-trains-the-first-frontier-scale-llm-entirely-on-chinese-domestic-chips-longcat-2-0"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:44:06","slug":"meituan-trains-the-first-frontier-scale-llm-entirely-on-chinese-domestic-chips-longcat-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/meituan-trains-the-first-frontier-scale-llm-entirely-on-chinese-domestic-chips-longcat-2-0","title":{"rendered":"Meituan Trains the First Frontier-Scale LLM Entirely on Chinese Domestic Chips: LongCat-2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meituan-trains-the-first-frontier-scale-llm-entirely-on-chinese-domestic-chips-longcat-2-0.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Performance: The model is optimized for \u201cagentic coding\u201d tasks. In benchmarks, it scored 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, surpassing Google\u2019s Gemini 3.1 Pro and slightly exceeding OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5. It also performed strongly on other agent and reasoning tests.<\/p>\n<p>* Inference and Release: Before its official launch, it operated anonymously on OpenRouter as \u201cOwl Alpha,\u201d becoming one of the platform\u2019s top three most-used models. The model weights and technical infrastructure are expected to be released soon on platforms like Hugging Face. API pricing is set at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, with promotional rates available.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Meituan trained LongCat-2.0 on over 50,000 unnamed Chinese AI ASICs arranged in superpods with high-bandwidth interconnects. The chips share architectural similarities with Huawei\u2019s Ascend 910C series, though Meituan has not publicly named the exact vendor.<\/p>\n<p>The training run consumed <strong>more than 35 trillion tokens<\/strong>, including hundreds of billions of tokens with approximately 1-million-token context lengths. This level of scale \u2014 previously achieved only on NVIDIA GPUs or Google TPUs \u2014 required extensive custom engineering in parallelism, fault tolerance, and numerical stability.<\/p>\n<p>The team implemented <strong>6D parallelism<\/strong> (tensor, context, expert, data, pipeline, and embedding parallelism) to efficiently distribute both the MoE layers and the novel embedding components across the cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Performance: The model is optimized for \u201cagentic coding\u201d tasks. In benchmarks, it scored 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, surpassing Google\u2019s Gemini 3.1 Pro and slightly exceeding OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5. It also performed strongly on other agent and reasoning tests. * Inference and Release: Before its official launch, it operated anonymously on OpenRouter as \u201cOwl Alpha,\u201d becoming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}