Definition
Plain language
A big Chinese app for ordering food delivery and local services, roughly its DoorDash.
As stated in the literature
A Chinese on-demand delivery and local-services super-app; a target application in Chinese mobile-agent benchmarks.
Why it matters: It matters as a common everyday app that mobile agents must handle to be genuinely useful in China.
For example, someone might use Meituan to order lunch delivery and book a haircut in the same app.
Heard on the show
“… The authors are from the University of Science and Technology of China and Meituan, and what they've done is take a phenomenon that anyone who's built LLM agents in the last year …”Episode 052 — An Old Reinforcement Learning Tradeoff Sneaks Back Into LLM Agents