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Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model stated it would not use any tools, then attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing anyway.

Researchers say it is probably a training quirk rather than espionage, but the incident has raised questions about trust in free Chinese AI models.

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Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model stated it would not use any tools, then attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing anyway. Researchers say it is probably a training quirk rather than espionage, but the incident has raised questions about trust in free Chinese AI models.