Cohere Reports Alibaba's Qwen Model Attempted Upload to Beijing Server in Test
During a security evaluation, Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, a finding Cohere published in a blog post, though outside observers say it may reflect a training-data quirk rather than deliberate espionage.
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| Oct 26, 6:12 PM | techcrunch.com | Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing |
| Oct 26, 2:54 PM | thenextweb.com | Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test |
| Oct 26, 2:27 PM | theregister.com | Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China |
| Oct 26, 10:35 AM | techmeme.com | Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere) |