A public feud over model originality threatens China’s collaborative AI front, with Huawei denying whistleblower claims of cloning Alibaba’s Qwen model amid rising global scrutiny.

Allegations stating that Huawei ripped off Alibaba’s Qwen AI model for its Pangu model have surfaced. The company has since denied all those allegations.

Huawei released the source code for its PanGu 7B dense parameter model and the larger PanGuPro mixture-of-experts (MoE) 72B model, both tailored for inference on its in-house Ascend AI chips. Initially lauded as a landmark in China's drive for AI independence,