Huawei’s AI Lab Denies that One of Its Pangu Models Copied Alibaba’s Qwen
CHINA, JUL 6 – Alibaba’s Qwen VLo AI model focuses on controlled image generation but is not open source, marking a shift from previous releases like Qwen3, company officials said.
- Last week, Alibaba introduced Qwen VLo, a multimodal image AI model whose model weights are withheld, ending its open-source availability.
- Amid rising competition, DeepSeek released its open-source R1 model in January, and Alibaba's Qwen3 weights came out in April, prompting Huawei to tighten licensing controls.
- Alibaba states Qwen VLo uses a progressive generation method and supports variable resolutions and aspect ratios like 4:1 or 1:3, despite current limitations.
- With VLo closed-source, developer access diminishes as Huawei open-sources Pangu Pro MoE on GitCode, intensifying competition for adoption among Chinese AI firms.
- Alibaba plans to enhance model reliability and stability amid ongoing closed-source licensing, potentially reshaping China's open AI research norms.
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Huawei’s AI Lab Fends Off Accusations It Copied Rival Models
Huawei Technologies Co.’s secretive AI research lab has pushed back against accusations it relied on rivals’ models to develop its own Pangu platform, taking the unusual step of rebutting claims about its artificial intelligence efforts.
Huawei’s AI lab denies that one of its Pangu models copied Alibaba’s Qwen
Huawei’s artificial intelligence research division has rejected claims that a version of its Pangu Pro large language model has copied elements from an Alibaba model, saying that it was independently developed and trained.Read MoreThe post Huawei’s AI lab denies that one of its Pangu models copied Alibaba’s Qwen first appeared on The Who Dat Daily.
Huawei, a mastodon of the telecoms, is the subject of serious accusations: his Pangu Pro linguistic model was simply copied to that of Alibaba, the famous Qwen 2.5. These allegations, relayed by a whistleblower and an analysis collective, denounce the sometimes obscure practices of development of the IA and threaten the unity of the Chinese sector in the face of Western competition. Huawei denies as a whole, but the debate is launched.
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