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  • 1Releases tracked
  • Nov 6Latest · Arete-27B
  • 100%Open-weight
  • USAustin, United States

Nous Research is an Austin, Texas-based open-source AI lab that fine-tunes and releases open-weight language models. It is known for Hermes-series fine-tunes and research on alignment and values. Tracked releases include Arete-27B (November 2026), a supervised fine-tune of Alibaba Qwen3.8-27B intended to reduce CCP-framed answers while preserving general and agentic capability, published on Hugging Face with accompanying evaluation and dataset cards.

Nous Research

United States US & Canada nousresearch.com

1 release latest Nov 6, 2026

  1. Arete-27B

    Open-weight SFT of Qwen3.8-27B to reduce CCP-framed answers; Hermes Bench ~65.6%, Terminal-Bench-2.1 70%.

    • LLM
    • Open weights

Nous Research FAQ

What is Nous Research's latest AI model?
Nous Research's most recent release in the Startrise tracker is Arete-27B, released Nov 6, 2026.
How many AI models has Nous Research released?
Startrise tracks 1 notable Nous Research release since January 2025, from Arete-27B (Nov 6, 2026) to Arete-27B.
Does Nous Research release open-weight models?
Yes. 1 of 1 tracked Nous Research releases (100%) ship with downloadable weights; the most recent is Arete-27B.
Where is Nous Research based?
Nous Research is based in Austin, United States.