I’m hearing that "Owl Alpha", one of OpenRouter’s fastest-growing agent models, is actually Meituan LongCat-2.0-Preview

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-28

OpenRouter's fastest-growing agent model 'Owl Alpha' is reportedly Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview, a 1.6T-parameter MoE with 1M-token context that has reached top usage rankings across major agent frameworks while operating anonymously for two months.

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Chinese AI Models and Products Gain Structural Ground on US Rivals

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Topics: model-identitymoe-architectureopenrouteragent-modelsllm-inference

Claims

'Owl Alpha' on OpenRouter is reportedly Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview model operating under an anonymous name.
The model is a 1.6T-parameter MoE with a dynamic active parameter range of 33B to 56B and native 1M-token context.
It ranks #1 on Hermes Agent, #2 on Claude Code, and #3 on OpenClaw by usage.
The model processes 559B daily tokens and 10.1T monthly tokens, with 242% monthly growth.

Key quotes

'Owl Alpha' has been quietly trialed on OpenRouter for nearly two months and has already become one of the most used agent models globally.

That is extraordinary for a model still operating under an anonymous name.