🧠 LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 è un nuovo framework open source di #Meituan per generare video avatar guidati dall’audio, con un forte orientamento alla stabilità e all’utilizzo in contesti produttivi.

👉 I dettagli: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alessiopomaro_meituan-ai-genai-activity-7465355717961732096-Aj7_

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#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #IntelligenzaArtificiale #LLM 

Meituan has released LongCat-Next, a native multimodal AI model that treats text, images, and audio as equivalent tokens within a single architecture. Unlike conventional models that bolt vision and speech onto a language foundation, LongCat-Next unifies all modalities from the outset. https://pandaily.com/meituan-open-sources-native-multimodal-model-long-cat-next #China #Tech #AI #Meituan
Meituan Open-Sources Native Multimodal Model LongCat-Next

A truly native multimodal model, LongCat-Next unifies text, vision, and audio as tokens within a single architecture.

Meituan snaps up Dingdong to deepen push into fresh grocery retail

The US$717 million Dingdong acquisition highlights Meituan’s long-term bet on grocery e-commerce and on-demand consumption in China.

South China Morning Post
China AI hardware firms trump internet giants in growth outlook

The AI boom is propelling upward revisions for hardware names in contrast with internet platforms held back by price wars.

The Japan Times
#Alibaba’s #Amap mapping service reached 400 million users with its new #AIbased #destinationranking feature, Amap Street Stars, launched last month. This move intensifies Alibaba’s competition with #Meituan in the #localservices sector, particularly in #restaurant and #hotel rankings. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327794/alibabas-amap-hits-400-million-users-new-ai-ranking-feature-local-services-push?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Alibaba’s Amap AI feature an instant hit with 400 million users since launch

As of June, Amap had 895.5 million monthly active users, making it the fourth biggest mobile app in China by that measure.

South China Morning Post
MEITUAN LANZA AGENTE DE IA PARA MEJORAR EL NEGOCIO DE ENTREGA DE ALIMENTOS.
#CHINA #IA #MEITUAN $MPNGY
美團與京東燒錢 400 億做爛市 美團單季盈利大跌 90% 經營溢利 113 億變 2 億
中國外賣龍頭美團公布第二季業績,營收增長 12% 至 918 億元人民幣(約港幣 991 億元),但仍低於分析 […]
#智慧城市 #Meituan #中國科技 #外賣市場
https://unwire.hk/2025/08/28/meituan-earnings-miss-overseas-expansion/life-tech/smartcity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meituan-earnings-miss-overseas-expansion

From #Beijing to #HongKong, the #gigeconomy runs on a common - “reduce the cost of labour” - model.

#Meituan employs 7.45 million, while #EleMe 4 + million “self-employed contractors” disqualified from basic protections guaranteed by Chinese labour law. Exploiters and exploited must jointly contribute to pension, medical, and unemployment insurance — “self-employed” workers must pay everything themselves, out of reach for all those underpaid.

https://hklabourrights.org/news/4000-for-a-life-the-human-toll-of-cheap-deliveries-in-china/

#Capitalism #workingpoor

£4,000 for a Life? The Human Toll of Cheap Deliveries in China - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察

In recent years, China’s food delivery market has become fiercely competitive. Faced with penalty systems that directly impact their pay, riders often speed, run red lights, and even drive against traffic — all to meet tight delivery targets. The consequences have been dire: over 12,000 traffic accidents involving delivery workers were recorded in 2023 alone.

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 - Amplifying workers' voices from HK to the world - 將香港勞工抗爭的聲音帶到國際