Meituan launches LongCat-2.5 multimodal model for coding
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LongCat-2.5 has 1.6 trillion total parameters with roughly 48 billion activated per token, trained on long task sequences and large-scale RL for complex codebases. It handles visual and text inputs in a unified token framework for visual coding, design, and 3D tasks.
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