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Federal Register site briefly offered Chinese Qwen3 AI model for document search

A screenshot circulated online showing the US Federal Register's search interface offering Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3:0.6B language model as a search option alongside the default semantic search. About a day after the screenshot spread, the Qwen options disappeared from the site, though an archived snapshot from September 16 confirms they existed.

futurism.com · 2026-09-20

Federal Register briefly used Alibaba's Qwen AI model, then pulled it after backlash

US officials removed a Chinese-made Qwen AI search tool from the Federal Register website on Wednesday after social media users spotted it powering search of public regulatory comments. The tool, made by Alibaba, had been live for at least a day before removal, and neither the National Archives, the White House, nor the FBI has explained how or why it was deployed.

arstechnica.com · 2026-09-18