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Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own


A now-deleted report by HonestAGI on GitHub showed a high number of similarities between Huawei’s Pangu and Qwen 2.5.

Lab Heads: Including Tang Ruiming (now departed), Shang Lifeng, Zhang Wei, Hao Jianye, Liu Wulong, among others—many core members have since left. This was our real technical achievement: stable training, no spikes in loss, reliable performance matching competitor benchmarks. Many contributors to the 135B V3 model, who made real technical contributions, were excluded due to “author limits,” which caused serious discontent within the team.

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