NousResearch releases Arete-27B, a Qwen fine-tune

NousResearch post-trained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B via supervised fine-tuning to create Arete-27B, aiming to reinforce Western values. Evaluations show its fact score rose from 2.32 to 2.98 out of 5, and propaganda-containing answers dropped from 22% to 0.9%.

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