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Huawei's star AI model was built on burnout and plagiarism
On July 5th, the True-Story-of-Pangu GitHub repository was published, and it is not a traditional code repository, as it only contains a README.md. It is a whistleblower report detailing the development of Noah Pangu — Huawei’s flagship LLM. This project was recently accused by HonestAGI of copying Alibaba Qwen
However, the whistleblower’s version of events appears to align with HonestAGI’s allegations, depicting an intense development cycle marked by fierce internal competition and plagiarism. These chips were buggy and unstable, and working with them required the core team to spend enormous engineering effort stabilizing the stack before real progress on model training could even begin. Directly loaded DeepSeek's checkpoint (directory name unchanged) Froze parameters and repackaged as their own work Easily outperformed the core team's genuine 718B model still in development
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