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. 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. “Two out of the three members of this Llama3-V team are merely undergraduate students at Stanford University, and they have a long journey ahead. Christopher David Manning, the director of the Stanford AI Laboratory, also issued a statement condemning the act of plagiarism and praising the Chinese open-source model MiniCPM.