Overview

• HonestAGI released a GitHub paper asserting an extraordinary correlation between Pangu Pro MoE 72B and Alibaba’s Qwen-2.5 14B, implying model upcycling.
• Huawei’s Noah Ark Lab issued a statement rejecting copying accusations and highlighting key architectural innovations and compliance with open-source licenses.
• An anonymous insider alleged that Huawei created a pseudo-135B Pangu Pro V2 by wrapping Alibaba’s Qwen-1.5 model in extra layers, but these claims remain unverified.
• Analysts and critics have raised doubts about the reliability of the fingerprinting method used and flagged fake references within HonestAGI’s report.
• The dispute underscores intensified rivalry among Chinese tech giants and reveals tenuous trust in proving AI model originality under U.S. export controls.