Meituan

Meituan is a Chinese technology company founded in 2010 by Wang Xing and headquartered in Beijing. Best known for its massive local services platform — spanning on-demand food delivery, consumer reviews, hotel bookings, and instant retail — Meituan listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2018. Beyond its consumer platform, the company has invested heavily in AI research, including generative video.

Meituan's catalog is focused entirely on video generation, with four models from its Longcat family released in 2025. The lineup includes Longcat Full Quality and Longcat Distilled variants, each available in both text-to-video and image-to-video configurations. The Distilled versions offer a lighter-weight alternative for faster generation, while the Full Quality models target higher-fidelity output.

Meituan's entry into generative video reflects the broader trend of major Chinese tech platforms leveraging their engineering scale to push into frontier AI. The Longcat models position Meituan as a notable contributor to video generation, an area where few providers offer both text-driven and image-driven pipelines across multiple quality tiers.