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NousResearch says its Portal is offering Meituan’s LongCat-2.5 multimodal model free for one week.
Why it mattersThat gives people a short window to try the model without paying through the Portal. A week-long offer is useful, though not quite a permanent change to anyone’s AI budget.
Discuss: Should AI platforms make model trials time-limited, or offer a small free tier people can use at their own pace?
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Nous/Hermes Watch Update What changedWitcheer says Meituan’s LongCat-2.5 can read images and has a one-million-token context window. Those details give prospective users a clearer sense of what they could try through Nous Portal during the free week.
Witcheer also describes the model as reasoning by default. That is a capability claim, not an independent test of how reliably it reasons.
The post identifies the free model as meituan/longcat-2.5:free and says it is built for long-running agent tasks and visual coding. That makes the offer more specific than a free-access notice alone, although the post supplies no benchmarks.
Sources and evidence
- witcheer on X: LongCat-2.5 is free in Nous Portal for a week! this model: - reads images, with a 1M context - reasons by default - is built for long agentic tasks and visual coding: Witcheer says LongCat-2.5 reads images, has a one-million-token context window, reasons by default, and is intended for long agent tasks and visual coding; its free model ID is meituan/longcat-2.5:free.
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