Meituan， one of China's largest on-demand service platforms， has an AI announcement that contains two stories. The headline is that LongCat-2.0， its new 1.6 trillion-parameter model， was reportedly trained and deployed entirely on a 50，000-chip cluster powered by Chinese AI processors. Meituan says its push into domestic AI infrastructure began in 2023， culminating in LongCat-2.0 becoming the company's first frontier-scale model to complete both pre-training and inference on a home-grown computing cluster. If validated， it would mark another step toward reducing China's dependence on Nvidia， not just for inference， but for training frontier models. The more interesting story， however， is what Meituan plans to do with it. Earlier versions of LongCat already power AI assistants that recommend restaurants， book hotels， and order food. Rather than launching another standalone chatbot， Meituan is embedding AI into the services millions of people already use every day. The model becomes another layer of the product， not the product itself. That increasingly looks like the direction China's internet platforms are taking. Alibaba is opening Qwen to branded AI agents， while Ant Group is rebuilding Alipay around its AI assistant， Ah Bao. Instead of competing solely on benchmark scores or chatbot downloads， these companies are integrating AI directly into ecosystems that already have users， merchants， payments， and transactions.