@svpino: Cina's AI ecosystem is different from everyone else: Every company wants to release its own SOTA model, but they are al…
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The tweet discusses China's AI ecosystem where companies compete but release open-source models. It notes a mystery model 'Owl Alpha' on OpenRouter revealed to be Meituan's LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T parameter model with ~48B activated parameters optimized for reasoning and tool calling.
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Cina’s AI ecosystem is different from everyone else:
Every company wants to release its own SOTA model, but they are all going open source.
They are competing but sharing openly with the world.
I wish the US were trying to do the same.
SARAH (@SarahAnnabels): Just confirmed: the mystery model “Owl Alpha” on OpenRouter is from Meituan.
A Chinese company. The model is called LongCat-2.0. The model: 1.6T total parameters. ~48B activated on average.
Optimized for multi-step reasoning and tool calling.
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