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Meituan ships LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter (about 48B active) native multimodal agentic model, with API pricing of $0.30/$1.20 per 1M tokens

On Nov 2 Meituan's LongCat team listed LongCat-2.5 in its API platform change log as the full release of September 25's LongCat-2.5-Preview. The official technical blog says it has 1.6 trillion total parameters with about 48 billion activated per token, builds on LongCat-2.0 with stronger native visual understanding and agentic coding, and was trained and served with W4A4 inference on domestic AI accelerators. Vendor-reported scores include 88.4 on Terminal Bench v2.1, 38.5 on Terminal Bench v4.0, 91.9 on BrowseComp and 83.1 on MCP Atlas. The API speaks both OpenAI and Anthropic formats with a 1M-token context and up to 128K output tokens, at a limited-time price of $0.30 per 1M uncached input tokens, $0.006 cached input and $1.20 output.

Meituan ships LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter (about 48B active) native multimodal agentic model, with API pricing of $0.30/$1.20 per 1M tokens

Key Takeaways

  • Scale: a 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE with about 48B active per token, a 1M-token context and up to 128K output tokens (official blog, API docs)
  • Code agents (vendor-reported): Terminal Bench v2.1 88.4 (Claude Opus 5 89.1, GPT-5.6-Sol 88.8), Terminal Bench v4.0 38.5 (GPT-5.6-Sol 37.3, Claude Opus 5 53.9), DeepSWE v1.1 64.6
  • General agents (vendor-reported): BrowseComp 91.9, MCP Atlas 83.1, AutomationBench v1.0.6 51.8, HLE with tools 63.1; AutomationBench jumps from 15.8 on LongCat-2.0
  • Pricing: limited-time $0.30 per 1M uncached input tokens, $0.006 cached input and $1.20 output (pricing page)
  • Engineering: W4A4 inference raises prefill throughput 43.3% and decode throughput 42.77% over a W8A8 baseline; FSDP gives 86% higher per-device throughput than DDP in long-sequence SFT
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Rule-Governed World Modeling Breakthroughs: OmniVerifier-C1 Graded Verifier, Meituan's WorldCast (72.8 vs 20.1 Open-Source Gap), and NUS's 4x Faster RPO Diffusion RL

Three new studies tackle verification, evaluation, and RL alignment for rule-governed generative world models: OmniVerifier-C1 (arXiv:2610.22355, 32 upvotes) uses Decoupled RL to train a decomposed graded visual verifier that reaches 0.684 on ViVerBench and boosts FLUX.1-dev GenEval from 0.68 to 0.79 while enabling Maze and Sudoku world modeling; Meituan's WorldCast benchmark (arXiv:2610.20731, 30 upvotes) evaluates 12 models across 320 multi-step world state prediction cases, finding GPT-Image-2.5 System at 72.8 vs. 42.8 for Nano Banana Pro and 20.1 for the top open model; and NUS's Routing Policy Optimization (RPO, arXiv:2610.22282, 23 upvotes) turns attention routing into an internal exploration action to train video/image diffusion RL 3.1x–4.2x faster than Flow-GRPO and DanceGRPO.

Rule-Governed World Modeling Breakthroughs: OmniVerifier-C1 Graded Verifier, Meituan's WorldCast (72.8 vs 20.1 Open-Source Gap), and NUS's 4x Faster RPO Diffusion RL

Key Takeaways

  • OmniVerifier-C1 uses Decoupled RL (DAPO) to jointly optimize sub-question binary judgments and global continuous scoring, reaching 0.684 on ViVerBench and boosting FLUX.1-dev GenEval from 0.68 to 0.79
  • Meituan's 320-case WorldCast benchmark reveals a massive gap in multi-step visual state prediction: GPT-Image-2.5 System scores 72.8 vs. 42.8 for Nano Banana Pro and 20.1 for the best open-source model
  • NUS's Routing Policy Optimization (RPO) uses internal attention routing exploration to align Wan2.2-TI2V-5B in just 24.1 GPU-hours—3.1x faster than Flow-GRPO and 4.2x faster than DanceGRPO
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Command Code makes LongCat-2.0 free for all plans: 1.6T MoE, 1M context

Command Code (@CommandCodeAI) says Meituan LongCat-2.0 is free on all plans: a 1.6T MoE with ~48B active params and 1M context - install via npm i -g command-code. Meituan account confirmed it is live and free in Command Code.

Key Takeaways

  • LongCat-2.0 is free across all Command Code plans.
  • Specs: ~1.6T MoE / 48B active / 1M context for coding CLI agents.
  • Install with npm i -g command-code, expanding free LongCat access beyond Cline.
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Cline makes LongCat-2.0 free: Meituan 1.6T MoE with 1M context, near Opus 4.7

Cline (@cline) says Meituan LongCat-2.0 is free inside Cline now: a 1.6T open-weights MoE with 1M context that it says scores near Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro—install the CLI and pick it under free models via /model.

Key Takeaways

  • LongCat-2.0 is available under Cline free models with no paid quota.
  • It is Meituan's 1.6T open-weights MoE with about 1M context.
  • Cline positions it near Claude Opus 4.7 / Gemini 3.1 Pro for coding-agent trials.
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