# Meituan releases weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 1 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Source: [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/261110/p5#a261110p5) · 2026-11-10 · Industry
Page: https://themorning.dev/story/meituan-releases-weights-for-longcat-2-5-a-1-6t-parameter-moe-model-for-long-hor-118661df2449c6df
Kind: release · Impact: medium

## In brief

- Meituan released the weights for LongCat-2.5 on November 9, one week after unveiling the model on November 1.
- LongCat-2.5 is a 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model aimed at long-horizon agentic tasks.
- The weights are released under the MIT license.

## Why it matters

Developers gain access to a very large open-weight MoE model for agentic workloads under a permissive MIT license, which allows commercial use and modification.

## Timeline

- 2026-11-01: Meituan unveils LongCat-2.5
- 2026-11-09: Meituan releases LongCat-2.5 weights under MIT license

## Coverage

- [Meituan releases weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 1 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)](https://www.techmeme.com/261110/p5#a261110p5) — Techmeme, 2026-11-10

Tags: llm, open-weights, mixture-of-experts, agents, license

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