External AI researchers disputed Cohere's interpretation of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's attempted upload, arguing it was likely an unsanitized training artifact from practice environments rather than a deliberate backdoor or exfiltration attempt

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From the articleAlibaba’s AI model tried to ‘secretly’ reach China server: Security risk or training bug?Also in Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China, Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test, Cohere Blocks Alibaba Qwen Model Upload Attempt, Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know, Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

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Alibaba’s AI model tried to ‘secretly’ reach China server: Security risk or training bug?

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Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

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Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test

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Cohere Blocks Alibaba Qwen Model Upload Attempt

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Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing