Dossier
Owl Alpha
Coverage of Owl Alpha in the Nexus archive.
- LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along
LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model, operated under the alias 'Owl Alpha' for two months before being claimed by Meituan. The model offers significantly lower pricing than GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.