US government website found using Qwen3-based search despite intel warnings
96Stats · x · 2026-09-17
Someone found a US government website running a "distilled Qwen3" model — the same model US intelligence and cyber agencies warned about last week. The author investigates: the government isn't distilling Chinese models, but their actual usage is still surprising — it turns out to be for search, not generation.
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