Arete Models by Nous Research

Nous ResearchApache 2.0Open source
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1 model2026

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Details

ResearcherNous Research
LicenseApache 2.0OSI-approved
Commercial usePermitted
Models1
Released2026

Links

WebsiteHuggingFace

About

Arete is Nous Research's model line post-trained from Chinese open models to replace state-aligned behavior on politically sensitive topics with factual answers. The first release, Arete-27B (November 2026), is a supervised fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0.

Decision facts

Best fit
General model comparison
Capability starting point
Arete-27B
Lowest tracked input
Not tracked
Closest related family
Capybara

Current Variants

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Arete-27BCurrent

Use when the workload needs 27B parameters.

2026-1127B parameters

Release Timeline

1 release group
2026-11
1 current
Arete-27B
27B parameters
Current

Specifications(1 models)

Arete model specifications comparison
ModelReleasedParameters
Arete-27B2026-1127B