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

**Published:** October 27, 2026
**Author:** Aditya Mehta
**Source:** TechCrunch — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/cohere-says-alibaba-s-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

> From the original source: **TechCrunch — AI**
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**Tags:** #Open Source AI #Hugging Face #DeepSeek

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