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ai morning #15 — meituan's secret model was already running your production stack
An anonymous model sat at the top of the OpenRouter charts for two months. Builders shipped on it daily. Then it was revealed as a food delivery company's model trained entirely on Chinese chips. The same morning, open-source crossed 65% of all OpenRouter usage, up from 34% in January.
Marcus walks through how Owl Alpha became LongCat-2.0, why the anonymous identity reveal is a supply-chain event as much as a capability story, and what it means for builders routing traffic today.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:40 Meituan's Owl Alpha was LongCat-2.0 — The anonymous top-3 OpenRouter model was…
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