China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips

China's largest food-delivery company has released a powerful artificial intelligence model trained entirely on domestic semiconductors, a striking signal that Beijing's chip industry may be closing the technological gap with the West faster than many analysts believed. Meituan's decision to open-source LongCat-2.0 represents a rare act of transparency that could either accelerate China's AI capabilities or serve as a calculated move to demonstrate self-sufficiency to a government eager to reduce reliance on American technology. The move threatens to upend Western assumptions about how long Beijing has before it can independently compete in the race for AI dominance.

SiliconANGLE·Jul 1