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Nous Research's Arete-27B strips political spin from Qwen with a small fine-tune

According to @shawnchauhan1, Nous Research used a single 53-million-token supervised fine-tuning run, with no reinforcement learning, on Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. The claimed result is propaganda rates falling from 22% to 1% while Hermes Bench scores sta...

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-11T05:50:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-11T22:20:18+00:00
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According to @shawnchauhan1, Nous Research used a single 53-million-token supervised fine-tuning run, with no reinforcement learning, on Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. The claimed result is propaganda rates falling from 22% to 1% while Hermes Bench scores sta...

According to @shawnchauhan1, Nous Research used a single 53-million-token supervised fine-tuning run, with no reinforcement learning, on Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. The claimed result is propaganda rates falling from 22% to 1% while Hermes Bench scores stayed around 65%. Why it matters: If it holds up, companies can...

Signal Strength 83% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 44 Category RESEARCH Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Public Interest components
Recognizable Entity Score 82 Practical Impact Score 8 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 10 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 60

VQV surfaced this signal because it is recent, relevant to Open Source LLMs, connected to Scobleizer News Pulse (X).