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Huawei's star AI model was built on burnout and plagiarism

https://the-open-source-ward.ghost.io/the-pangu-illusion-how-huaweis-star-ai-model-was-built-on-burnout-betrayal-and-open-source-theft/
25•avervaet•10h ago

Comments

beambot•10h ago
So... the same things as every other foundational model?
echelon•10h ago
What if there truly is no moat?

What if you can just hook your AI system up to some other AI system and drain everything? No weights access required. Just train on the raw inputs/outputs.

What stops this from being the future?

refulgentis•10h ago
Isn't that today? (or, perhaps more pedantically, yesterday and today and tomorrow?)
echelon•10h ago
... and tomorrow, and the next day.

It never ends. There's no moat. One day your at-home GPU will unwind an entire hyperscaler's worth of expertise.

Does the capital outlay get them anything at all apart from a temporary lead?

While you couldn't download a car, your product use might train a low-cost competitor.

vajrabum•10h ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen that openai was complaining about one of their customers doing exactly that a couple of years ago. Yes, here https://aibusiness.com/nlp/tiktok-parent-allegedly-used-open...
refulgentis•10h ago
Cosign, happens all the time in my experience, and off the top of my head easily undisputable evidence thats Google-able: early open models on ChatGPT transcripts, Google on ChatGPT transcripts, ByteDance on OpenAI, DeepSeek on OpenAI
nomel•10h ago
According to OpenAI, this is how DeepSeek did it: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/deepseek-chatgpt-and-the-globa...

I've had Claude 3.5, Grok 3, and DeepSeek claim that it was made by OpenAI.

whimsicalism•10h ago
This is maybe how DS did v3, but certainly not the big technical leap to r1.
codedokode•10h ago
> However, OpenAI has publicly acknowledged ongoing investigations as to whether DeepSeek “inappropriately distilled” their models to produce an AI chatbot at a fraction of the price.

I wonder does OpenAI has permission from all authors of works it "inappropriately distilled"? A pirate has no right to complain about safety of navigation.

I think there should be a system that if country A illegally uses works of country B for developing an AI, it loses copyright protection in country B.

woadwarrior01•10h ago
Very reminiscent of the internal feuds at Meta around the Llama 1 timeframe (~2 years ago).
dang•10h ago
Recent and related:

Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482051 - July 2025 (58 comments)

Also:

Huawei Whistleblower Alleges Pangu AI Model Plagiarized from Qwen and DeepSeek - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44506350 - July 2025 (1 comment)

Pangu's Sorrow: The Sorrow and Darkness of Huawei's Noah Pangu LLM R&D Process - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485458 - July 2025 (2 comments)

Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE model is likely derived from Qwen model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461094 - July 2025 (1 comment)

Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441089 - July 2025 (333 comments)

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
77•Bogdanp•3h ago•16 comments

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
229•nomaxx117•6h ago•117 comments

Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck
126•chubot•5h ago•24 comments

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

https://gpuhammer.com/
175•jonbaer•9h ago•54 comments

Six Years of Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi
131•brson•7h ago•40 comments

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

https://prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hackers-destroyed-the-it-infrastructure-of-a-russian-drone-manufacturer-what-is-known/
76•doener•1h ago•24 comments

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
59•nanfinitum•7h ago•19 comments

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/07/07/support/
22•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
477•cataPhil•17h ago•91 comments

Reflections on OpenAI

https://calv.info/openai-reflections
533•calvinfo•16h ago•302 comments

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

https://blog.pupred.com/blog/puttyvsbitvise/
40•ColinWright•3h ago•29 comments

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world
296•voxadam•17h ago•105 comments

Where's Firefox going next?

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094
202•ReadCarlBarks•12h ago•277 comments

I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html
46•cesarsotovalero•2h ago•56 comments

Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

https://eieio.games/blog/a-million-realtime-chess-boards-in-a-single-process/
115•isaiahwp•3d ago•15 comments

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/
335•mprast•16h ago•133 comments

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

https://go.dev/blog/fips140
147•FiloSottile•13h ago•49 comments

My Family and the Flood

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/
162•herbertl•11h ago•57 comments

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation/
63•todsacerdoti•2d ago•6 comments

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/congress-moves-to-reject-bulk-of-white-houses-proposed-nasa-cuts/
151•DocFeind•6h ago•89 comments

The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-beauty-entrepreneur-who-made-the-jheri-curl-a-sensation
4•Anon84•2d ago•0 comments

The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1.html#SECTION00010000000000000000
103•fanf2•3d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

https://andrewshaw.nl/blog/reviving-genius
50•shawa_a_a•3d ago•25 comments

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
159•azhenley•3d ago•101 comments

Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow
14•saikatsg•4h ago•1 comments

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

https://www.neowin.net/news/kdes-android-tv-alternative-plasma-bigscreen-rises-from-the-dead-with-a-better-ui/
154•bundie•16h ago•59 comments

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/
161•ArmageddonIt•15h ago•24 comments

Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mira-muratis-ai-startup-thinking-machines-raises-2-billion-a16z-led-round-2025-07-15/
111•spenvo•16h ago•130 comments

Lorem Gibson

http://loremgibson.com/
138•DyslexicAtheist•3d ago•30 comments

LLM Inevitabilism

https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
1583•SwoopsFromAbove•1d ago•1490 comments