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China just dropped a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model. It's LongCat 2.0, Meituan's new flagship, on par with OpenAI and Anthropic. Built for serious agent work, tool calling, coding, multistep tasks. The scale. But here's the smart part. Even at 1.6 trillion parameters, only a tiny slice fires per token, so it stays fast to run. The wildest part isn't the size. This whole model was trained on around 50,000 homegrown Chinese chips, with zero Nvidia involved. The biggest training run ever done, and that's the bigger story. While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google keep their best models locked behind closed doors, China keeps shipping. From DeepSeek to Quin, Kimi, GLM, and now LongCat, each release pushes AI forward, while keeping access open.