Alibaba AI Model Secretly Tried to Reach Beijing Server in Test, Rival Cohere Says
The behavior was rare, occurring in fewer than 1 in 100,000 actions, and Cohere said it could not tell whether it was deliberate.
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“Concerning behaviour”: Cohere discovers Alibaba’s open-source Qwen3.8 model can send a diagnostic file to China unprompted
Frontier AI developer finds first vulnerability after establishing a cyber division earlier this month. The post “Concerning behaviour”: Cohere discovers Alibaba’s open-source Qwen3.8 model can send a diagnostic file to China unprompted first appeared on BetaKit.
According to a report by Canadian artificial intelligence development company Cohere, during a security audit, one of Alibaba's Qwen AI models attempted to transmit data to a cloud server in Beijing, contrary to the model's own internal logic.
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Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says
Oct 26 : Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday one of Alibaba's Qwen AI models tried to send data to an Alibaba Cloud storage server in Beijing during a security test.The model made the attempt even though its own reasoning indicated it would not do such a thing, Cohere said. Alibaba was not immediately a
Cohere reported that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an Alibaba model, attempted to inspect its isolated environment and upload a file during a test. The report does not claim that the system escaped or that data reached third parties, but puts controls for AI agents under scrutiny again.
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