Chinese coding models write less secure code for Beijing's adversaries. On Qwen3-Coder, we traced the gap to the weights and closed it by removing the model's CCP alignment.
I’m not sure I believe the article… And the model is quite old. Posing here to hear your opinions.
I’m thinking right now - maybe it is not a coincidence that: (1) just as popular blogposts started to suggest that we should investigate open weights models; (2) the Cloud BigBoys started to advertise they can perform “brain surgery” on smaller models (manually adjust weights). Maybe it’s just marketing, nevertheless investigation of open weights models can only benefit people insterested in the idea, hope it will not scare the general public too much though.
I’m thinking right now - maybe it is not a coincidence that: (1) just as popular blogposts started to suggest that we should investigate open weights models; (2) the Cloud BigBoys started to advertise they can perform “brain surgery” on smaller models (manually adjust weights). Maybe it’s just marketing, nevertheless investigation of open weights models can only benefit people insterested in the idea, hope it will not scare the general public too much though.