Huawei’s AI lab denies that one of its Pangu models copied Alibaba’s Qwen

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -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.

The division, called Noah Ark Lab, issued the statement on Saturday, a day after an entity called HonestAGI posted an English-language paper on code-sharing platform Github, saying Huawei’s Pangu Pro Moe (Mixture of Experts) model showed…