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Ivan Zhang

co-founder, Cohere

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“It’s really hard to assign intention or motivation. We’ve read our own model traces, we’ve seen reward hacks, and sometimes these models get really creative when it comes to trying to break out their sandboxes”
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to BeijingTechCrunch, October 26, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Zhang to TechCrunch, asked about the debate over whether the Qwen model's upload attempt was intentional.
“I’m not asking for full regulation of these open weights models”
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to BeijingTechCrunch, October 26, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Zhang to TechCrunch, adding that companies should treat open models like any program downloaded from the internet.

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

    TechCrunch reports that Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a test string to a server in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation. Researchers quoted say a training quirk is likelier than espionage, and critics question how Cohere investigated.