Nous releases Arete-27B with weights, training data and a values eval
Nous Research released Apache-2.0 Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B, together with its training pairs and an 803-prompt political-framing evaluation. Nous reports that its own 'any propaganda' rate fell from 22% to 0.9% without a meaningful regression on the capability tests it ran.
Why it matters: The release makes a politically motivated post-training intervention auditable at the weights, data and evaluation layers. It also shows why values claims need separate factuality, capability and distribution-shift tests instead of a single alignment score.