This week’s podcast is about the development and launch of Meituan’s LongCat 2.0 LLM. This 1.6T parameter, frontier model was trained entirely on domestic hardware. That’s a big milestone. As a digital strategy consultant Jeffrey Towson discusses in this Tech Strategy podcast, Meituan’s achievement with LongCat represents a key advancement supporting broader digital transformation strategy efforts in the region by enabling fully homegrown frontier AI capabilities.