LongCat Next

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LongCat Next is a native multimodal checkpoint that combines text, vision and audio understanding or generation in one framework.

Key specifications

Specification score
31.8
Context window
131.07K
License
MIT
Parameters
3B active / 74B total

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input
  • Audio input

Produces

  • Text output
  • Image output
  • Audio output

Capabilities

VisionAudioStreamingOpen weights

What is LongCat Next?

LongCat Next is a native multimodal checkpoint that combines text, vision and audio understanding or generation in one framework.

A shared multimodal token framework

LongCat Next extends autoregressive prediction to text, visual and audio signals. It uses modality-specific tokenizer and detokenizer components and builds on a sparse LongCat backbone with about 3B active parameters. The complete checkpoint includes roughly 74B stored parameters.

Understanding and generation

The publisher provides examples for visual understanding, image output and audio conversation. These paths require the supplied processor and decoding components. A deployment that exposes only a text chat endpoint does not automatically provide all of the model’s generation modes.

What to test

Start with an image question that needs a visible detail, a text-to-image brief with several requested objects and a spoken exchange. Inspect each modality separately. In a conversation that changes modality, check whether the model preserves the intended subject and prior constraints instead of treating every turn as a new task.

Serving the release

The configuration sets a 131,072-position text limit. Use the companion repository’s environment and templates to reproduce the documented input structure, especially when decoding image or audio outputs. The weights and source are MIT-licensed. Plan memory for the full checkpoint, modality components and caches; an active parameter count describes computation and does not establish the total serving footprint or a hosted API price.

Sources

Model documentation

How to evaluate LongCat Next

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Tasks and inputs

LongCat Next is listed for Any-to-any, Image-text-to-text, Text-to-image, Text-to-speech. It accepts text, image, audio and produces text, image, audio. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 131.07K context. Choose the output size and quality your design needs. Include drafts and revisions when budgeting an accepted image.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under MIT. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The linked publisher repository supplies the weights or reference inference files and explains the supported runtime.

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