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Nous Research releases Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen 27B model
Nous Research said it post-trained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B into Arete-27B to change what it calls state-aligned answers; Techmeme flagged the Western-values claim. Independent tests are not in the assigned coverage.
Nous Research said it released Arete-27B, a post-trained version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. Techmeme carried the announcement as a pointer to that post1.
The lab described the work as post-training intended to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained open-weight model. Techmeme summarized Nous as saying the underlying model's bias layer is shallow1.
Nous presented weights, an evaluation, and training data as available with the post. The Techmeme item did not include independent evaluations or comment from Alibaba1.
What the post-training changes in practice outside Nous's own tests, how third parties score Arete-27B against Qwen3.8-27B, and Alibaba's response were not established in the assigned coverage1.
