Nous Research selected Inkling, an open model from Thinking Machines Lab, as the teacher model for Arete-27B to avoid terms-of-use restrictions on distillation

From the articleState propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip awayAlso in Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%
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