A Food-Delivery Company Just Built a Frontier AI Without a Single Nvidia Chip. That’s the Story.
On June 30, Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter model released under a permissive MIT license, which the company says is the first model of its scale trained and run entirely on domestic Chinese chips, with no Nvidia GPUs. The benchmark claims are self-reported and the full weights aren’t yet public. But the hardware milestone is the story — and it lands as Washington gates access to American models. gafam.ai reads what it means for Europe’s impossible AI choice.