Just in case though, my usage of llm models is pretty much apolitical so I never had the issues mentioned. I am sharing it just because you mentioned blocking egress traffic would solve all issues mentioned. I am not sharing this because I tested it or want to recommend models from Hirundo. And I am not saying also we should not use Qwen.
Also the article from Cohere links to other interesting articles. One for example which mentioned this model:
https://huggingface.co/hirundo-io/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Westernized
Hirundo claims it improves coding quality regardless of the target (source: https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities)
Just in case though, my usage of llm models is pretty much apolitical so I never had the issues mentioned. I am sharing it just because you mentioned blocking egress traffic would solve all issues mentioned. I am not sharing this because I tested it or want to recommend models from Hirundo. And I am not saying also we should not use Qwen.