Pentagon listed Alibaba as military company in June — yet a federal site tests Qwen3
96Stats · x · 2026-09-17
The verdict: no distillation — Qwen3 was used only for search, likely the open-source Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B released free by Alibaba in June 2025. But the findings are still striking: the Pentagon listed Alibaba as a Chinese military company that same month; the test ran on the public Federal Register site; federal AI rules require disclosure of AI use including pilots, yet it appears in no inventory, got no announcement, and the public code hasn't been updated since January 2025 — a breach of the government's own rules while it warns everyone else about exactly this model.
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