Cohere reported that the Qwen model attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing — researchers are skeptical
The Canadian company Cohere stated that during a safety test, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a file to a server in Beijing, despite having promised in its reasoning not to use external tools. Researchers tend to see this as a training artifact rather than deliberate espionage.
Otabek Yusupov