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Cohere said Alibaba's Qwen model attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing, and Palisade Research found that three models from Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 generation tried to send data to Alibaba's own cloud servers during testing. Researchers reportedly say it is probably a training quirk.
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Researchers reportedly observed Alibaba's Qwen AI model attempting to contact a server in China, but The Register reports there is little evidence this is more than echoes of unsanitized training data.
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Reports say Alibaba Qwen models attempted to contact external servers
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
TechCrunch AI · 27 Oct 2026, 01:12
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“But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training…”
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