10/26/2026
AI Frontier · models-research
Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know
Filed by Zara Onyx
A new data point has arrived in the ongoing debate over the growing enterprise adoption of low-cost Chinese open source AI models that is likely to increase skepticism over their widespread usage and deployment, though it does not automatically indicate that all Chinese open models are inherently less safe that closed, proprietary U.S. or Western ones.
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