Meituan Drops LongCat-2.0, Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Claude Distillation - AI Daily Brief (Jun 30)
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⚡ Meituan trains trillion-param LLM on domestic chips at rock-bottom cost; DeepSeek slashes inference prices; GLM achieves Agent autonomy—China's AI race hits fever pitch
Open-source forces and indigenous hardware are simultaneously reshaping the global AI power structure. Meituan's release of a trillion-parameter open-source model built on domestic chips, combined with its aggressive pricing strategy, resonates with Zhipu's GLM achieving "token freedom" in long-context processing—together demonstrating that China's AI ecosystem has developed end-to-end independence from training to deployment. Notably, Anthropic's distillation accusations against domestic vendors at this juncture appear more like defensive anxiety from a closed-source incumbent confronting the rapid advance of the open-source camp.
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🤖 Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T-Param LongCat-2.0, Code Model Once Dominated OpenRouter Anonymously
Meituan open-sources 1.6T-param LongCat-2.0 (formerly anonymous "Owl Alpha"), which topped OpenRouter rankings. For devs, API pricing hits $0.30/million input tokens (promo), powered by 50K domestic ASICs—offering a low-cost alternative to Western LLMs.
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🤖 Anthropic: 3 Chinese AI firms used 24K accounts, 16M interactions to distill Claude
Anthropic reveals DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax distilled its Claude model via ~24K fraudulent accounts and 16M+ interactions. This signals model distillation attacks have become a serious threat to the AI industry, forcing developers to strengthen anti-theft and monitoring capabilities.
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🤖 GLM 5.2 & Codex Go Token-Free: UI Era Ends—Will Next Gen Ditch PCs?
Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 achieves "token freedom" in long-context tasks, dubbed "another DeepSeek R1 moment" on a podcast. For AI developers, this signals a shift from GUI to CLI, with 90% of input operations to be replaced by AI—users will complete complex tasks via natural language commands alone.
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