US government site removes Alibaba Qwen model

The US Federal Register briefly offered Alibaba's Qwen model to search public comments before removing it after social media users noticed. The FBI had named Alibaba among six Chinese firms allegedly conducting industrial-scale distillation, highlighting a policy contradiction.

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