[Meituan Releases Native Multimodal LongCat-Next] Reporters have learned that Meituan's Long Cat team has released and fully open-sourced the native multimodal large model LongCat-Next. It is reported that this model breaks the traditional patchwork architecture of current large models centered on 'language,' unifying images, speech, and text into the same-source discrete tokens. (STAR Market Daily)