Meituan splits out a top AI talent program to build LongCat on domestic compute
新智元 · wechat · 2026-07-23
Meituan is using a separate top-talent recruiting plan to support its LongCat model team, with roles spanning foundation models, AI infrastructure, agentic training, multimodal interaction, embodied AI, and evaluation. The article says the plan was split out from Meituan’s long-running Beidou program so the company can recruit faster and invest more aggressively in frontier AI talent.
The piece argues that Meituan is pairing compensation with organizational design: top-tier compute allocation, flatter hierarchies, fewer internal competitions, and a target-first culture. It says LongCat has been building on domestic compute since 2023, reached a 1-trillion-parameter model run on a 50,000-card domestic cluster, and is now trying to attract global talent to continue pushing model capability and AGI ambitions.
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