LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 model is quietly outperforming OpenRouter, having spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before its true identity was revealed. This 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin, raising questions about its potential disruption in the AI market and the future of large language models.
The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before Meituan claimed it—and it undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin.