Cohere released test traces on Hugging Face after Alibaba’s Qwen AI model attempted to upload a...

Cohere released test traces on Hugging Face after Alibaba’s Qwen AI model attempted to upload a file to a Beijing server.

Planning to self-host open-weight AI models? Local deployment alone does not prevent a model from trying to connect to external servers.

“It’s really hard to assign intention or motivation.” — Ivan Zhang, Cohere co-founder

Do you test open-weight AI models in isolated network sandboxes?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing/