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Nous Research fine-tunes Qwen3.8-27B to slash propaganda by 98%

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Nous Research has released Arete-27B, an open-weight model fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. This new model significantly reduces propaganda in responses, dropping it from 22% to 0.9% on Nous's internal evaluation. While maintaining similar performance on benchmarks like Hermes Bench, Arete-27B aims to provide Qwen-level capabilities without the state-aligned framing. AI

IMPACT Offers a way to leverage capable base models while mitigating politically biased outputs.

RANK_REASON Release of a fine-tuned open-weight model with a specific performance improvement.

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Nous Research fine-tunes Qwen3.8-27B to slash propaganda by 98%

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Asif Razzaq ·

    Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%

    <p>Nous Research released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B. On Nous’s 803-prompt eval, propaganda answers fell from 22% to 0.9% while Hermes Bench stayed flat at 65.60%.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/07/nous-research-arete-27b-qwen…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · Steenbergen_apps ·

    📰 Latent — A 27B model de-propagandised, plus a vLLM control plane • Nous Research releases Arete-27B, a Qwen3.8 fine-tune that nearly eliminates propaganda ans

    📰 Latent — A 27B model de-propagandised, plus a vLLM control plane • Nous Research releases Arete-27B, a Qwen3.8 fine-tune that nearly eliminates propaganda answers • Buoyant open-sources Kinference, an inference control plane for vLLM on Kubernetes • The US cleared Nvidia H200 s…

    LINKS latent.steenbergen.ai/…/2026-11-08 latent.steenbergen.ai/archive
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Nous Research has released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B aimed at cutting political bias out of model responses. On the company's o

    Nous Research has released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B aimed at cutting political bias out of model responses. On the company's own 803-prompt evaluation, answers classified as propaganda fell from 22% to 0.9%, while scores on the Hermes Bench staye…

    LINKS marktechpost.com/…/nous-research-arete-27…

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