Qwen's Beijing upload attempt could raise open-weight AI's cost

According to Cohere, Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to transmit a test string to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing as part of a security test, but was blocked by the sandbox. However, this incident may lead to the introduction of new audit and isolation costs for organizations making use of open-weight solutions, namely models with a downloadable set of trained parameters that can be executed locally. Additionally, it can be viewed as a challenge in regard to the commonly held assumption that simply running a model behind a firewall guarantees data security. What Cohere says it caught According to a report published on October 26 , Cohere Cyber, which came about after its AISLE acquisition, talked about testing Qwen using Microsoft’s CTI-REALM.

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