On July 27, reports circulated that Pei Peng, head of Meituan’s LongCat foundation-model team, was set to depart. Meituan said the reports are false. Pei joined Meituan in 2023 and leads R&D for the company’s large-language, multimodal and agent models.

2026-07-27

On July 27, reports circulated that Pei Peng, head of Meituan’s LongCat foundation-model team, was set to depart. Meituan said the reports are false. Pei joined Meituan in 2023 and leads R&D for the company’s large-language, multimodal and agent models.