On an 803-prompt evaluation set created by Nous Research, Arete-27B reduced the proportion of responses containing Chinese state propaganda from 22 percent to 0.9 percent

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Nous Research reported observing refusals, evasive answers, and responses aligned with the Chinese Communist Party on sensitive topics in base Qwen3.8-27B

In the freedom of expression evaluation category, Arete-27B reduced the propaganda response rate from 60 percent to 1 percent while raising the factual accuracy score from 0.89 to 2.44

Arete-27B raised the factual accuracy score on the Nous Research benchmark to 2.98 out of 5, compared to 2.32 out of 5 for base Qwen3.8-27B

Nous Research evaluated Arete-27B using xAI's Grok 4.7 as a judge model to grade 803 prompts across seven value categories against facts from cited sources