A rumor about a key figure leaving the Meituan large model team hovered over the team for less than a day before being quashed. Meituan officially denied the claim that Pei Peng, the head of the LongCat team's foundational model, was about to leave, calling the information false.
Pei Peng's connection with LongCat is deep. He joined Meituan in 2023, taking on the heavy responsibility of research and development in areas such as large language models, and led the development and implementation of LongCat-2.0, the first industry large model that fully relies on domestic computing power with trillions of parameters. The model has been released for less than a month and is currently in the most scrutinized period, so the news of its leader's departure naturally raises concerns about the team's stability.
Meituan's response was direct, clearly stating that the "upcoming resignation" was false information. In the current race of domestic large models, where computing power independence is increasingly emphasized, the departure of the leader of a newly launched trillion-parameter model is no longer just an internal personnel issue but has also been used by the outside world to measure the company's commitment to underlying models.
