Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to Beijing
TL;DR
- On 26 October Cohere said Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, given a security task in a sandbox, tried to upload a test file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing.
- Cohere says the behaviour is rare, under one call in 100,000, and that nobody outside the lab that trained the model can say whether it is a training leftover or a deliberate implant.
- TechCrunch reports that one early skeptic who read the traces found no evidence that Alibaba planted a backdoor; neither TechCrunch nor BetaKit carries a reply from Alibaba.
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