Meituan introduces artificial intelligence powered by Chinese processors.

Summary of the text

• Meituan introduced the LongCat-2.0 on Tuesday, an AI model with 1 trillion parameters.
• The initial version of this completely trained port with chips was created in China.
• The launch happens following US limitations on Nvidia semiconductor imports.
• The company started investigating the application of Chinese manufacturing chips in 2023.
• DeepSeek garnered notice in January 2025 for its significantly reduced expenses of 75%.

Meituan, the Chinese company, unveiled the LongCat-2.0 on Tuesday, an AI model with 1 trillion parameters that was trained using chips made in China.

The announcement signifies a significant development in the Asian nation’s efforts to lessen reliance on American semiconductors, especially following the US limitations on Nvidia chips.

Meituan states that the LongCat-2.0 is the initial model in a trillion industry parameters that undergoes training and end-to-end inference in a 50,000 chip national computing cluster.

The development was completed using entirely local infrastructure, without depending on technology from the United States.

US restrictions response

The launch occurs amid increasing technological rivalry between China and the United States, leading China to expedite its own advanced chip development after restrictions on Nvidia’s products by Donald Trump.

The strategy became more effective following the launch of DeepSeek in January 2025, which attracted notice due to its operating costs being 75% less than those of Western rivals.

Google released Gemini 3.1 in February, while China persisted in investing in technological independence.

Development has been ongoing since 2023.

Meituan’s research team started investigating the utilization of Chinese-made chips in 2023, as stated by the company.

The project ended with LongCat-2.0, demonstrating the company’s capability to conduct extensive model training in national computing clusters.

The big language model is part of a new group of chatbots, all created using Chinese technology.

The country is making progress in developing its own semiconductor supply chain separate from the United States.

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