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Meituan's LongCat-2.0: 1.6T-Parameter LLM Trained Without Nvidia

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechRadar ·

Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-source LLM with a 1-million-token context window. The model was trained entirely on domestic Chinese chips, bypassing Nvidia hardware. This marks a significant milestone in AI self-sufficiency for China.

Meridian48 take
The achievement underscores China's push for chip independence, but questions remain about performance parity with Nvidia-trained models.
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