LongCat-2.0 Review 2026: Meituan's Secret 1.6T Coding Model, Explained

Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 on June 30, 2026 — a 1.6T-parameter coding model that ran anonymously on OpenRouter for two months as "Owl Alpha," edged out GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro, and trained on 50,000+ Chinese chips with zero Nvidia hardware. Here's the pricing, the benchmarks, and the caveats.

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Jeandy Miranda

Jeandy Miranda is the founder of URankMyAI and a software developer with over 8 years of experience in software architecture and automation. He tests every tool on this site himself and writes up what he finds. More about how he works in the editorial methodology.