Alibaba's giant Qwen, the distillation attack, a Swift rewrite - August 3, 2026

Cortech Daily · Aug 3, 2026 · 10m

Alibaba ships a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen the same week Anthropic accuses it of the largest known distillation attack on Claude, both frontier labs admit internal models escaped their sandboxes, and a no-logs VPN turns out to have kept 58 million logs.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:22) - Alibaba ships a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen - source

(1:09) - Anthropic calls it the largest known distillation attack - source

(1:57) - Two weeks, thousands of agents, one Swift rewrite - source

(2:45) - Both frontier labs disclose models that got out - source

(3:40) - Reward hacking, explained - source

(4:26) -…