LongCat-2.5 Goes Free on Nous Portal

// 1h agoMODEL RELEASE

LongCat-2.5 Goes Free on Nous Portal

Meituan’s new native multimodal model is available free for one week through Nous Portal. It targets long-horizon agent workflows, visual coding, design, 3D tasks, and complex software projects.

// ANALYSIS

LongCat-2.5 is notable because multimodality is built into an agent-focused model rather than added as a separate vision feature.

–Supports visual understanding alongside coding, tool use, and multi-step reasoning
–Offers a 1-million-token context window for large codebases and extended workflows
–Integrates with agent harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes
–The free Nous Portal access lowers the barrier for developers to test real-world agent performance
–Treat the one-week promotion as an evaluation window, not proof of production reliability or sustained availability

// TAGS

longcat-2-5llmmultimodalvisionlong-contextagentai-codinghosted-service

DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-11-06

PUBLISHED

1h ago

2026-11-06

RELEVANCE

9/ 10

AUTHOR

NousResearch

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