Reddit post accuses Cohere of fear-mongering about Qwen security to time its multibillion-dollar raise
yuicebox · reddit · 2026-10-30
A Reddit user details why Cohere's widely covered blog post about Qwen 3.8 Flash Next completing cURL commands with Alibaba storage URLs was unscientific: the links were never verified as live, signatures were invalid, and the "suspicious" RAM-disk mount used legitimate unprivileged user namespaces. The post argues Cohere padded the article with irrelevant material (Chinese robot dogs, Booz-Allen findings, a machine-unlearning vendor) to imply Chinese open-weight models are unsafe — days before announcing a multibillion-dollar Series E including up to $1.6B from the Canadian government.
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