The source for this claim is apparently a chart in the second tweet in the thread, which compares ERNIE-4.5 to GPT-4.5 across 15 benchmarks and shows that ERNIE-4.5 scores an average of 79.6 vs 79.14 for GPT-4.5.
The problem is that the benchmarks they included in the average are cherry-picked.
They included benchmarks on 6 Chinese language datasets (C-Eval, CMMLU, Chinese SimpleQA, CNMO2024, CMath, and CLUEWSC) along with many of the standard datasets that all of the labs report results for. On 4 of these Chinese benchmarks, ERNIE-4.5 outperforms GPT-4.5 by a big margin, which skews the whole average.
This is not how results are normally reported and (together with the name) seems like a deliberate attempt to misrepresent how strong the model is.
Bottom line, ERNIE-4.5 is substantially worse than GPT-4.5 on most of the difficult benchmarks, matches GPT-4.5 and other top models on saturated benchmarks, and is better only on (some) Chinese datasets.
If it was tightly integrated into the OS I could sort of understand not mentioning its name, like you don't want "Foobar Control Panel" and "FizzBuzz Start Menu". But KDE Connect is a standalone app you can install even on Windows. And this is not just hiding the name, it's replacing it!
So, why the "rebrand"[2]? It feels like an attempt at stealing credit.
[1] https://github.com/ZorinOS/zorin-connect-android and https://github.com/ZorinOS/gnome-shell-extension-zorin-conne...
[2] https://github.com/ZorinOS/zorin-connect-android/issues/19