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Security Research into Chinese Open-Weight Models
Independent security research into Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek R1 and V3, Alibaba Qwen, Moonshot Kimi K2, Zhipu GLM, MiniMax, Baidu Ernie) from February 2025 to August 2026: who is testing them, what red-teaming and provenance methods they use, which results survive independent replication, and how regulated, defence and military buyers are assuring models whose training data and training objectives are never disclosed
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Synthesised 2026-08-03
Narrative
Independent testing of Chinese open-weight models split into two waves. In the week after DeepSeek R1's January 2025 release, security vendors raced to publish jailbreak results: KELA's AI Red Team reported it could jailbreak R1 across a wide range of scenarios, including ransomware and weapons content, using a mix of outdated and novel techniques. Qualys TotalAI ran an 8B distilled variant through 885 attacks across 18 jailbreak types and found the model failed 58% of these attempts, demonstrating significant susceptibility to adversarial manipulation