Mark Jeffrey

Sen. Bernie Sanders Verified account @SenSanders · 7h

66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap

No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.

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Nous Research Verified account @NousResearch · 1d

Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.

Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.

After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.

The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.

Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete

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