Meituan

Meituan is a Chinese super-app built around on-demand food delivery and local services, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, that has expanded into AI with its 560-billion-parameter open-source LongCat model. Its decisions to restrict use of rival AI models within its platform and to develop proprietary AI infrastructure illustrate how Chinese platform-native AI is becoming both a defensive data-protection tool and an offensive competitive asset. For fashion retail technology, Meituan's platform architecture is a reference point for how delivery, logistics, and consumer transaction data can be integrated with AI recommendation and fulfilment systems.

First mentioned: April 2026