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Nous Research Releases Arete-27B Fine-Tune Cutting Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda Answers to 0.9%

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Nous Research released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 supervised fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B aimed at removing Chinese state framing on political topics. On its 803-prompt eval, propaganda answers fell from 22% to 0.9% while Hermes Bench stayed flat at 65.60%.

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  1. 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%)
  2. 2026-11-08 04:45 · MarkTechPost
    Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%

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