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Meituan unveils LongCat-2.0, the model behind the stealth ‘Owl Alpha’ on OpenRouter

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Source: VentureBeat

Delivery company Meituan unveiled LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context under an MIT licence, revealing it as the anonymous ‘Owl Alpha’ that had reached OpenRouter’s global top three by token volume. Full weights were promised later; API prices are $0.75 and $2.95 per million tokens with free cache hits.

Why it matters

A Chinese consumer company produced one of the most used coding models on a major developer platform.

When
29 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0218
Where
China
Who
Meituan

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from VentureBeat. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0218: “Meituan unveils LongCat-2.0, the model behind the stealth ‘Owl Alpha’ on OpenRouter.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-meituan-longcat-2-open-2026-06/ (source: VentureBeat).

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