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Nous Research releases Arete-27B, cutting Qwen3.8-27B propaganda rate from 22% to 0.9%

Nous Research released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B trained on 53M tokens to remove Chinese state-aligned framing. On its 803-prompt eval, propaganda answers fell from 22% to 0.9% with Hermes Bench flat at 65.60%.

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Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-11-08 06:24 · AlphaSignal
    Nous Research's Arete-27B Strips Chinese State Propaganda From Qwen Down to 0.9%
  2. 2026-11-08 04:56 · r/machinelearningnews
    Nous Research releases Arete-27B, a Qwen3.8-27B fine-tune that cuts propaganda answers to 0.9% (from 22%)
  3. 2026-11-08 04:45 · MarkTechPost
    Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%
  4. 2026-11-06 21:48 · AlphaSignal
    Nous Research's Arete-27B Cuts Chinese State-Aligned Responses by 95%

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