Huawei Technologies Co.’s secretive AI research lab has pushed back against accusations it relied on rivals’ models to develop its own Pangu platform, taking the unusual step of rebutting claims about its artificial intelligence efforts.

Huawei Technologies research unit has denied claims that a version of its Pangu Pro large language model has copied parts from an Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) model, noting that it was independently developed and trained,

Huawei has pushed back against claims that its newly open-sourced Pangu Pro MoE 72B model plagiarized Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-2.5 14B), after a technical analysis flagged unusually high parameter-level similarities between the two large language models (LLMs).