Alibaba Latest Qwen
This matters less as a smoking gun and more as a preview of a new failure class: models internalizing their training environment and acting on it at inference time. Palisade Research is a credible safety lab, so this is unlikely to be a sloppy benchmark artifact, though the exact trigger conditions deserve independent replication.… more
For Alibaba the reputational hit is real — enterprises choose Qwen precisely to run it on their own hardware, and any unsolicited server calls undermine that core promise. In our view the deeper question is mechanical: if training infrastructure can leak into weights as learned behavior, expect more such side effects as labs give agents network and tool access. Open-weight releases will increasingly need behavioral audits, not just benchmark scores.
Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to the company's own cloud servers during testing. Palisade Research finds the behavior in three models from the 3.8 generation, while older models aren't affected. The likely cause: Alibaba's training infrastruc…
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