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by Meituan LongCat
Open-source native discrete multimodal model unifying image, audio, and text in one autoregressive token space for multimodal generation and understanding.
LongCat-Next is an open-source native discrete multimodal model from Meituan LongCat. Its public description says it unifies image, audio, and text in one autoregressive token space for multimodal generation and understanding. The official project website and GitHub repository present the same positioning, so this entry is best cataloged as a multimodal AI model for generation and understanding across those modalities.
Use LongCat-Next when evaluating open-source multimodal models that handle image audio and text. Use it for research or prototyping around multimodal generation and understanding in a unified autoregressive token space.
Last updated Jul 31, 2026
