@j @tadano @sulaco @sun @bleedingphoenix
And China also claims it's democratic.
This feels like praising Canada for manufacturing cheap medicine, when they don't do the actual research, and just get the recipe from USA after American labs invested all the money to do the research.

I'll keep saying this as long as it's needed. We already know China steals technology in pretty much any domain possible. Who knows how much western code they stole and analyzed to help them make their own model, not to mention how even more shady tactics they likely employed to train it.
Time will tell, maybe they're legit, maybe they're not. But China doesn't have a good track record.