AI Info Trend
AI Info Trend
Apr 7, 2026 · Industry Insights

Which Future Growth Arenas Will Dominate the Global Economy by 2040?

McKinsey Global Institute’s 2026 update identifies 18 high‑growth "future arenas"—from AI foundations and cloud computing to electrification and hard tech—projecting a combined revenue of $29‑48 trillion by 2040 and reshaping global competition across regions and industries.

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Which Future Growth Arenas Will Dominate the Global Economy by 2040?
AI Explorer
AI Explorer
Apr 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Meituan Unveils LongCat-Next: A Deep Unified Multimodal AI Model Shifting AI Foundations

Meituan’s newly announced LongCat-Next model claims to encode images, speech, and text into a single shared token space, moving beyond the conventional “stitch‑based” multimodal architectures toward a unified perception that could dramatically improve AI understanding in complex scenarios such as autonomous driving and e‑commerce.

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Meituan Unveils LongCat-Next: A Deep Unified Multimodal AI Model Shifting AI Foundations