As China attempts to move beyond using domestic chips solely for model inference, food delivery giant Meituan has released what it claims is the country’s first trillion-parameter artificial intelligence model trained entirely on home-grown hardware.The Beijing-based on-demand service giant on Tuesday open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a new large language model (LLM) boasting 1.6 trillion parameters and a context window of 1 million tokens. The scale puts it on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model, V4-pro, which launched in April.While DeepSeek-V4-pro relied on home-grown chips only for inference – the process where a pre-trained model runs to answer user queries – LongCat-2.0 used...