Xin Lang Cai Jing·2026-03-03 05:15Core Viewpoint - The Tabbit AI browser, developed by Meituan's team, has entered public testing, but it faces allegations of code plagiarism from users on social media [1][8]. Group 1: Allegations and Response - Users have claimed that the Tabbit AI browser has copied code from their projects, specifically mentioning the "陪伴蛙" source project [1][8]. - The official response from the Tabbit team indicates that they are taking the allegations seriously and have conducted a thorough self-examination regarding the open-source compliance of their project [1][8]. Group 2: Development Timeline - On December 30, 2025, while developing a translation feature, the team forked the "read-frog" open-source project, which at that time did not have any open-source license declaration [5][8]. - On January 2, 2026, the original author of the "read-frog" project added a GPLv3 license to the repository, but the Tabbit team did not merge subsequent code from the original project and failed to notice this change in licensing [7][12]. Group 3: Commitment to Open Source - The Tabbit team acknowledges that their forking occurred before the project had a clear open-source license and expresses respect for the original author's ownership and licensing choices [9][12]. - The team has decided to remove the translation project from the new version of the Tabbit browser and has made the project fully open-source for community review and use [9][12].