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Meituan Denies Rumors of Key AI Leader's Departure

A rumor about a key figure leaving Meituan's large model team barely lasted a day before the company shut it down. Meituan officially denied claims that Pei Peng, the head of the LongCat team's foundational model, was planning to resign, labeling the information as false.

Pei Peng's ties to LongCat run deep. He joined Meituan in 2023, taking on the heavy responsibility of research and development in large language models. He led the creation and deployment of LongCat-2.0, the first industry large model with trillions of parameters that relies entirely on domestic computing power. The model has been out for less than a month, and it's currently under intense scrutiny. So news of its leader's potential departure naturally raised eyebrows about the team's stability.

Meituan's response was blunt: the "upcoming resignation" is false. In the current race among domestic large models, where computing power independence is becoming increasingly important, the departure of a leader behind a newly launched trillion-parameter model is no longer just an internal personnel matter. It's been used by outsiders to gauge the company's dedication to its underlying models.

Key Points

  • Meituan denies that Pei Peng, head of LongCat's foundational model, is resigning.
  • Pei Peng joined Meituan in 2023 and led the development of LongCat-2.0.
  • LongCat-2.0 is a trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic computing power.
  • The denial aims to reassure stakeholders about the team's stability and commitment.