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Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, Claims It Beats ChatGPT 5.5

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from ProPakistani ·

Chinese delivery giant Meituan released its LongCat-2.0 AI model as open source on GitHub and Hugging Face. The company claims the model outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 on several benchmarks. LongCat-2.0 is available for free, marking a significant move in the open-source AI race.

Meridian48 take
While benchmark claims should be taken with a grain of salt, Meituan's open-source release could accelerate AI development in China and challenge Western dominance.
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