Zero Foreign Chips: How Meituan's LongCat-2.0 Just Rewrote China's AI Playbook
A food delivery giant just trained a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model on 50,000 Chinese-made chips — no Nvidia in sight. LongCat-2.0 matches GPT-5.5 and Gemini, was secretly topping global leaderboards, and might be the moment China's chip independence stopped being a slogan and started being a strategy.
Lavamgam AIJun 30, 20266 min read read
Here's a sentence that would have sounded like science fiction two years ago: A Chinese food delivery company just trained the country's first trillion-parameter AI model on a 50,000-chip cluster built from zero foreign semiconductors — open-sourced it under an MIT license — and casually revealed it had been secretly topping global developer leaderboards for the past two months under a fake name.
No, this is not the plot of a Chinese tech-thriller. This is Meituan's LongCat-2.0, unveiled on...