Meituan Denies Rumor That LongCat Model Lead Pei Peng Is Leaving

On July 27, rumors circulated that Pei Peng, the foundation model lead of Meituan's LongCat team, was about to leave. According to Jin10, Meituan said the report was untrue. Public information shows that Pei Peng graduated from Peking University and has long worked in information retrieval and natural language processing. He joined Meituan in 2023 and initially served as pretraining lead for the foundation model team in the Computing and Intelligent Platform Department before becoming the foundation model lead of the LongCat team, overseeing Meituan's research and development of large language models, multimodal models, and agent models.