Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T model that secretly led OpenRouter

The 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model, previously running anonymously as "Owl Alpha" for two months, ranked first on the Hermes Agent workspace and second on Claude Code. Standard API pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.95 per million output tokens, undercutting GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5. Trained entirely on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs using over 35 trillion tokens.