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Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei's AI Scandal Just Exploded--And Investors Should Be Paying Attention
Huawei is pushing backhard. Over the weekend, its secretive Noah's Ark Lab broke from its usual silence to address accusations that its new AI model, Pangu Pro MoE, borrowed code without proper credit. The model, which runs on Huawei's own Ascend chips (their homegrown answer to Nvidia's GPUs), had its source code picked apart on GitHub, where a group dubbed HonestAGI claimed it spotted unacknowledged code fragments. That post vanished. But another one, titled Pangu's Sorrow, quickly followedalleging that Huawei's team had been under intense pressure to deliver and fell behind domestic rivals in the race. In a rare rebuttal, Huawei said it fully complied with open-source licenses and welcomed technical discussion, not speculation. This isn't just a code reviewit's a window into the internal pressure mounting inside China's AI champions. With Alibaba and DeepSeek making waves and catching investor attention, Huawei's rare public statement signals how high the stakes are becoming. The companylong a symbol of China's tech self-sufficiencynow finds itself on the defensive in one of the hottest battlegrounds: sovereign AI. The fact that Huawei had to respond at all speaks volumes. IP compliance, innovation speed, and trust are no longer soft issuesthey're table stakes in an environment where reputations are earned (or lost) in public. For global investors watching the AI value chainfrom chipmakers like Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) to downstream platforms like Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)this is another flashing signal. The game isn't just about who builds the fastest model. It's also about who's playing fair, who's shipping on time, and who's earning credibility in a world that increasingly demands transparency. As China's AI ecosystem matures, these reputational battles could become just as important as the hardware wars. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei's AI Scandal Just Exploded--And Investors Should Be Paying Attention
Huawei is pushing backhard. Over the weekend, its secretive Noah's Ark Lab broke from its usual silence to address accusations that its new AI model, Pangu Pro MoE, borrowed code without proper credit. The model, which runs on Huawei's own Ascend chips (their homegrown answer to Nvidia's GPUs), had its source code picked apart on GitHub, where a group dubbed HonestAGI claimed it spotted unacknowledged code fragments. That post vanished. But another one, titled Pangu's Sorrow, quickly followedalleging that Huawei's team had been under intense pressure to deliver and fell behind domestic rivals in the race. In a rare rebuttal, Huawei said it fully complied with open-source licenses and welcomed technical discussion, not speculation. This isn't just a code reviewit's a window into the internal pressure mounting inside China's AI champions. With Alibaba and DeepSeek making waves and catching investor attention, Huawei's rare public statement signals how high the stakes are becoming. The companylong a symbol of China's tech self-sufficiencynow finds itself on the defensive in one of the hottest battlegrounds: sovereign AI. The fact that Huawei had to respond at all speaks volumes. IP compliance, innovation speed, and trust are no longer soft issuesthey're table stakes in an environment where reputations are earned (or lost) in public. For global investors watching the AI value chainfrom chipmakers like Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) to downstream platforms like Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)this is another flashing signal. The game isn't just about who builds the fastest model. It's also about who's playing fair, who's shipping on time, and who's earning credibility in a world that increasingly demands transparency. As China's AI ecosystem matures, these reputational battles could become just as important as the hardware wars. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
South China Morning Post
07-07-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Huawei defends AI models as home-grown after whistle-blowers raise red flags
The Huawei Technologies' lab in charge of large language models (LLMs) has defended its latest open-source Pro MoE model as indigenous, denying allegations that it was developed through incremental training of third-party models. The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant, considered the poster child for China's resilience against US tech sanctions, is fighting to maintain its relevance in the LLM field, as open-source models developed by the likes of DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding gain ground. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Huawei used an open-sourced artificial intelligence (AI) model called Pangu Pro MoE 72B, which had been trained on Huawei's home-developed Ascend AI chips. However, an account on the open-source community GitHub, HonestAGI, on Friday alleged that the Huawei model had 'extraordinary correlation' with Alibaba's Qwen-2.5 14B model, raising eyebrows among developers. Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, the unit in charge of Pangu model development, said in a statement on Saturday that the Pangu Pro MoE open-source model was 'developed and trained on Huawei's Ascend hardware platform and [was] not a result of incremental training on any models'. The Huawei Ascend AI booth at The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 4, 2024. Photo: AP The lab noted that development of its model involved 'certain open-source codes' from other models, but that it strictly followed the requirements for open-source licences and that it clearly labelled the codes. The original repository uploaded by HonestAGI has gone, but a brief explanation remains.
