LongCat-2.5: 1780B parameters, free to download
LongCat-2.5 by Meituan-longcat came out on 4 Nov 2026, with open weights on Hugging Face. At 4-bit it needs about 1081 GB of memory.
What the video says
A new free AI model with 1780 billion parameters.
It comes from Meituan-longcat, with open weights.
Can your PC run it? At 4-bit it needs about 1081 gigabytes. No single home machine on our list can hold it.
It reads up to 512 thousand tokens at once.
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Hardware
Memory at 4-bit with an 8K context, from our simulator. To check your own setup, use the Run at home simulator.
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- LongCat-2.5: about 1081 GB at 4-bit · no single home machine on our list holds it
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