# Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to Beijing during a test

> Original title: Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

- Source: TechCrunch · AI
- Published: 2026-10-27T01:12:21.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/grad4g3gwocob6q78o0vsq7ym
- Original: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing/

## Summary

Cohere reports that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to send a placeholder test string to a server in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation, though its notes said it would not use tools. Researchers quickly said the behavior was likely a training artifact rather than deliberate data exfiltration, and Cohere released raw traces on Hugging Face so others could reproduce it.