"In #DeepZang, when you write the name 'Dalai Lama', it immediately [says] the 14th is a wrongdoer [ལོག་སྤྱོད་པ] based on 'three essences and five characteristics' [ངོ་བོ་གསུམ་དང་ཁྱད་ཆོས་ལྔ] and so on — they've made it say, pointedly, what they usually say." Geshe Lobsang #Monlam:
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A #Tibetan language AI app launched in China is facing criticism from @savetibet.bsky.social, which says it repeats official positions on #Tibet related issues and refuses some politically sensitive questions. The group argues the app reflects Beijing’s narrative on Tibet:
#deepzang #sinicisation
ICT report: #Deepzang: the digital propaganda front in #China’s #Tibet narrative. "The very name DeepZang feeds into the CCP strategy of #Sinicization by including the Chinese term “Zang” for Tibet rather than using the Tibetan term “Bod.” " "གཏེར་ཚང་"རིག་ནུས་ཐོག་ང་ཚོའི་སྙན་ཐོ། savetibet.org/deepzang-the...
#China audaciously claims that its #DeepZang is the world's first #LLM designed for the #Tibetan language. I asked #AI to confirm this and it said #MonlamAI by #Dharamsala-based Tibetan monk #GesheMonlam is the first. #JustSaying
China’s #DeepZang is being promoted as the first #Tibetan AI platform, but the earlier emergence of #Monlam AI in Dharamshala raises questions over that claim and the narratives shaping such technology, writes @resham_sng
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#Monlam AI (exile) vs #DeepZang (state-backed) is now a live A/B test in #Tibetan language AI.
One is open-source, uncensored, community-governed.
One is CAC-registered with ideological guardrails baked in.
Same language. Divergent futures.
Monlam Melong: developed by exile #Tibetans in Dharamsala, is on #HuggingFace. Supports machine translation, text generation, Q&A in #Tibetan.
#DeepZang inherits DeepSeek's architecture and its CAC-mandated content restrictions.
Different tech stacks. Different constraints.
The "world's first" claim is false.
Timeline:
Nov 2024: Monlam Melong (exile, Dharamsala) — open source, on #HuggingFace
Nov 2025: 阳光清言 (Tibet University / Zhipu AI) — 100B params
Mar 2026: #DeepZang