About & Vision

LongCat AI: AI for the Real World

Vision & Strategy

AI for the Real World. LongCat advances toward a unified world model and embodied intelligence, enabling AI to understand and interact with the physical world—connecting bits and atoms to drive an efficiency revolution.

  • World Model: grounded perception, memory, and prediction
  • Embodied Intelligence: task execution via robots, drones, autonomy
  • Real-time Interaction: low latency, streaming multi-modal IO
  • Scalable Efficiency: cost-effective training/inference at scale

Hardware + AI: Dual Strategy

AI as the brain, robotics as the legs. LongCat provides the cognitive core while embodied systems—autonomous driving, drones, and service robots—execute in the physical world, forming a multi-layer network across low-altitude, ground, and community scenarios.

  • AI Brain: LongCat series
  • Embodiment: drones, AMRs, autonomous delivery
  • Goal: build the computing engine for the real world

Strategic Direction

Meituan positions LongCat as a core platform capability across three dimensions:

  • "AI at work": internal productivity tools
  • "AI in products": customer-facing services
  • "Building LLM": infrastructure development

The expansion from dialogue to reasoning, video generation, image generation & editing, and audio processing represents progress toward world modeling and physical world simulation capabilities.

About Meituan

LongCat AI is developed by Meituan, a leading technology platform connecting consumers with merchants. Meituan's AI research focuses on real-world applications, from intelligent delivery to autonomous systems.