Two authors of the Stanford Llama3-V team apologized to the MiniCPM team on social media site X. Credit: ModelBest
Two authors behind a Stanford University AI project have apologized to the Chinese team behind open-source AI model MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 after social media users in China outed the former for having plagiarized the latter model, which was developed by Tsinghua University and ModelBest Inc. The incident sparked widespread discussion on the Chinese internet.
Two authors of the Stanford Llama3-V team, Siddharth Sharma and Aksh Garg, today apologized to the MiniCPM team on social media site X for their academic misconduct, announcing they would withdraw the Llama3-V model from use.
Why it matters: Members of the Stanford team acknowledged they had plagiarized Tsinghua University and ModelBest Inc’s work.
Details: “We sincerely apologize to the authors of MiniCPM for our failure to verify the originality of Llama3-V,” Aksh and Siddharth wrote on X today. “Mustafa, who wrote the code, described exciting extensions that we promoted without knowing about the prior work by OpenBMB (founded by Tsinghua University and ModelBest Inc). We take full responsibility for this oversight. We’ve removed all references to Llama3-V in respect to the original authors.”
Context: Founded in August 2022, ModelBest Inc secured a new round of financing worth hundreds of millions of RMB in April. Huawei’s Hubble Technology Venture Capital led the investment, with participation from Chunhua Capital, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, and Chinese Quora-like platform Zhihu. In February, ModelBest Inc launched the open-source model MiniCPM.
