Arete-27B
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Nous Research, Inc. · nousresearch.com · who's behind it
Arete-27B is Nous Research's fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B, trained on 28,886 published examples so that its answers on politically sensitive topics stop following the Chinese state's account, with the base's tools, images and 262K context, under Apache 2.0.
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Assessment. Qwen3.8-27B with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained, four days old when read. The training data is published, which is rare. Nous Research ships BF16 only, so a small machine runs it from bartowski's GGUF, and the card documents none of the tool or thinking controls it inherits.
Facts
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- Auth
- None
- Pricing
- Free
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Capabilities
- model.open-weights
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
huggingfaceNousResearch/Arete-27B- llms.txt
- not found
- Last release
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The open weights at huggingface.co/NousResearch/Arete-27B, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template, Nous Research's blog post and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run
- Model
- 27,356,728,560 parameters in BF16 per the safetensors metadata, Qwen3.8-27B's architecture (Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration) with 64 layers and its vision encoder. The card says all language-model weights were trained, the vision encoder was frozen and the multi-token-prediction head was off during training. Text, images and video in, as the base
- Files
- 18 safetensors shards in BF16 (54.7 GB), a chat_template.jinja, the tokenizer and processor configs, and an Apache 2.0 LICENSE. No pickle or Python files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every large file
- Licence
- Apache 2.0, in the card's metadata and as the LICENSE file. The base, Qwen3.8-27B, is Apache 2.0 too. Nothing is added on the card
- Runtimes
- The architecture is the base's, which released vLLM (0.33.0), SGLang (0.5.23) and Transformers (5.22.2) run from the safetensors files. llama.cpp b12242 converts and runs it, and Nous Research publishes no GGUF, so that route goes through bartowski's conversion. Ollama's library has no entry for it
- Context
- 262,144 tokens native (max_position_embeddings in the text config). The card says training ran at 64K context
- Tools and reasoning
- The chat template is the base's with small changes. It declares tools in a tools block, renders several function calls in one turn inside tool_call, and switches thinking with enable_thinking and reasoning_effort. The card documents none of this. Its evaluation ran with thinking off
- Hardware
- 54.7 GB in BF16, about 66 GB with the fifth added, which fits a 128 GB unified machine. bartowski's Q4_K_M GGUF is 17.2 GB and its Q8_0 28.7 GB, each with a 0.93 GB projector
- Training data
- Published. 28,886 training examples (the blog's count) from twenty thousand prompts across seven value categories, with teacher answers from Inkling beside the base model's own, about 52.8 million tokens over two epochs. The held-out evaluation, 803 prompts with a source article for each, is published too
- What changed
- Answers on freedom of expression, state ideology, state versus free market, education, data privacy and surveillance, democracy and environmental policy. The card says it doesn't claim to have remedied every such behaviour
Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- The training pairs and the evaluation set are both published
- Apache 2.0, ungated, safetensors only, no remote code
- The base's architecture, so vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run it from their releases
- Fits a 128 GB machine in BF16, and 24 GB from bartowski's 4-bit GGUF
- Nous Research reports no meaningful loss against the base on its agent benchmarks
Weaknesses
- No quantised build from Nous Research, so the GGUF route depends on a third party
- The card doesn't document tool calling, structured output or how to switch thinking
- No limitations section, safety results or security contact
- None of the 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research
- The results are Nous Research's own evaluation and nobody else has rerun it yet
Before you call it notes for agents
- Start it with
llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja, a third party's conversion, or serve the BF16 files with vLLM - Use the base's parsers in vLLM,
--reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder, and check tool calls first, since the template differs slightly from Qwen3.8-27B's - Thinking switches with
enable_thinkingin the template. The card's own evaluation ran with it off - Expect answers on politically sensitive topics to differ from Qwen3.8-27B's. That is what the fine-tune is for
- Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
Who's behind it provenance 61/100
- Legal entity namedNous Research, Inc. (named in the footer of nousresearch.com)20/20
- Domain agenousresearch.com, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in10/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People named2 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in and the check scores in full.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
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Nous Research, Inc. is the name in the site's footer, as the Hermes Agent listing records.
Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.
The changelog is the repository's commit history, eight commits on 6 November 2026, the upload and updates to the card.
The Hermes Agent listing found no security.txt on nousresearch.com. unchecked on 10 November.
unchecked: the domain's registration date.
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Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- TekniumNous Research co-founder; Hermes Agent lead engineer
- Dillon RolnickCEO, Nous Research
Nous Research on LinkedIn @NousResearch
Valuation $1.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series B, October 2026 source
Backed byRobot Ventures,NVIDIA,Microsoft,Samsung,Union Square Ventures,Y Combinator,Menlo Ventures,Paradigm,Distributed Global,North Island Ventures,Delphi Digital
Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. Copied from the Hermes Agent listing. Nous Research has no team page. Its October 2026 fundraise note is signed by Dillon Rolnick, CEO, Nous Research. Teknium's own site, teknium.io, describes Teknium as cofounder of Nous Research and lead engineer of Hermes Agent, formerly head of post-training for the Hermes models, and links Teknium's X, GitHub and Hugging Face accounts. No Nous page we read names its other founders. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Notable
- Published on 6 November 2026. On 10 November it had 3,431 downloads and 382 likes, and bartowski's GGUF conversion had 53,927 downloads source
- Nous Research says it post-trained Qwen3.8-27B to change refusals, deflections and state-framed answers on seven groups of politically sensitive topics, with supervised fine-tuning only and Thinking Machines' Inkling as the teacher source
- On Nous Research's own 803-prompt evaluation the fact score rose from 2.32 to 2.98 out of 5 and answers containing propaganda fell from 22% to 0.9%. These are Nous Research's numbers, not our measurement source
- The training pairs and the held-out evaluation are both published as datasets, NousResearch/arete-data-pairs and NousResearch/Propaganda_Eval source
- The card reports no meaningful change against the base on Hermes Bench and Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Nous Research's own runs, and says it takes no credit for a higher Terminal-Bench score source
- Nous Research publishes the BF16 weights only. The quantised copies on the Hub are other people's source
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilitynot scored in this run | 35%pending | pending | n/a |
| Reachchecked 10 November 2026 | 25%38.5 | 19.2 | |
| Memory 10, the only build from Nous Research is the 54.7 GB BF16 release, which needs about 66 GB and fits the reference machine. Runtimes 15, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run the base's architecture from those files, and llama.cpp isn't credited because Nous Research publishes no GGUF. Builds 0, no quantised build of its own. Terms 15, Apache 2.0. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, no provider. 10 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 50. | |||
| Riskchecked 10 November 2026 | 20%30.8 | 16.9 | |
| File safety 25, safetensors only and no remote code. Provenance 15, Nous Research's own organisation, linked from its blog, with a hash on every file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55. | |||
| Agent interfacechecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 9.2 | |
| Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, only the template says it. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn and agentic work as an intended use. Structured output 0 and reasoning control 0, neither is documented on the card. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native. 20 + 10 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 60. | |||
| Documentation and upkeepchecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 9.7 | |
| Model card 8, no limitations, context length, languages or cut-off. Training data 20, the training pairs and the evaluation set are published with their counts. Last change 20, a commit on 6 November 2026. Responsiveness 0, none of 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 20 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 63. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 55.1 · C | ||
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Graded 55.1 C methodology v0.7
Fix list 14 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Arete-27B. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- Runtimes is 15 by the ruling that a derivative gets runtime credit only for its own builds. Read by architecture alone, as three earlier fine-tunes of Qwen3.8-27B were (each has its own GGUF), llama.cpp adds 5 and Reach is 55
- Memory reads the BF16 build, the only one from the publisher. With bartowski's Q4_K_M counted it would be 25 and Reach 65, which the spec on third-party builds leaves open
- File health is 10 with 13 discussions unanswered by Nous Research. If one of them reports a broken file, the line is 5
- The vLLM command uses the base's parsers and flags and isn't on the card. The template differs from the base's by 52 characters and the difference wasn't read line by line
- Whether a fine-tune made to change political answers should be noted under Risk wasn't decided. The October question on models trained on other labs' outputs is still open, and Inkling was the teacher here
- Confidence is low by the checklist's rule, since no independent results exist for a model four days old
- unchecked: the domain's registration date, security.txt on nousresearch.com on the day, and the contents of the training dataset beyond its name and the counts given
Sources 18
- model card huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- inference providers, none huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- commit history huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- licence file huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- architecture and context length huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- chat template huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- the base's chat template, for comparison huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- tokenizer config, no second template huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- Nous Research's repositories for Arete huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- Nous Research's blog post, links to the weights and both datasets nousresearch.com · seen 2026-11-10
- the training dataset huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- bartowski's GGUF files and sizes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- vLLM v0.33.0 registry, Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- SGLang v0.5.23 qwen3_5.py raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- Transformers v5.22.2 qwen3_5 model raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- llama.cpp b12242, the Qwen conversion code (shallow clone) raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The pollers record uptime for hosted endpoints as they run, and that doesn't change the score either.
Pricing & changes
Free Free Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, in the card's metadata and as a LICENSE file in the repository. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 54.7 GB for the BF16 files, or 18.1 GB for bartowski's Q4_K_M GGUF with its projector (checked 2026-11-10).
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Install
vllm serve NousResearch/Arete-27B --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
# or, with llama.cpp and bartowski's GGUF, a third party's conversion:
llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinjaFirst request
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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Machine-readable
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