Huawei Dismissed Accusations of Copying Rival AI Models

Huawei threw away suggestions that its AI research lab used elements from rival models to develop its own Pangu Pro platform. The Chinese company stated it respected intellectual property and stuck close to licensing terms.

In a post on WeChat, the vendor responded to accusations posted on coding website GitHub, which claimed the Pangu Pro Mixture of Experts (MoE) model had used uncredited source code from rivals. The accusation came after Huawei released its source code for the model, prompting a group to be set up on GitHub called HonestAGI, calling out elements of Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 14B model in particular.

Noah’s Ark research lab, the team behind Pangu Pro MoE, stated in response that it strictly adheres to the requirement of open source licenses and clearly marks copyright statements in the relevant source files. It continued: “We welcome and look forward to in-depth and professional discussions on technical details with everyone in the open source community.” The research lab introduced a number of Pangu AI models in 2021 for various sectors, including telecoms and weather forecasting. The Pangu Pro MoE has 72 billion parameters and uses a hybrid technique powered by Huawei’s in-house designed AI chips.