Nous Research releases Arete-27B, cuts Qwen3.8-27B propaganda to 0.9%

Nous Research released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 fine‑tune of Qwen3.8‑27B. On an 803‑prompt evaluation, propaganda answers fell from 22 % to 0.9 % while the Hermes Bench score stayed flat at 65.60 %.

Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.

Why it matters

Arete-27B reduces political bias to under 1 %; consider adding bias‑mitigation benchmarks for new models.

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