China just open-sourced a coding model that beats GPT-5.5 — built without a single Nvidia chip

We've been tracking Chinese open models' share of the world's token volume climb for weeks; this is that trend turning into a specific tool you can download today, not a statistic. It's MIT-licensed, built for exactly the job most of you are already paying per token for — agentic coding — and it isn't a benchmark stunt: it's already the most-used coding model on two major routers. The chip story matters too: trained with zero Nvidia hardware, it's proof the compute chokehold everyone worried about isn't the hard constraint it looked like a year ago. None of this means rip out your current stack. It means take one real coding task this week, run it against LongCat-2.0 alongside whatever you use now, and judge the output yourself rather than the benchmark.