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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.