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Let me do y'all a favor and reword that headline:
"We fine-tuned Qwen to reduce government-aligned responses, improve factual accuracy, and give users more control over model alignment."
Same great research, just a better way to communicate it. 🫡
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Goated 💪
@higgsfield_ai sent us a cease and desist last night, asking us to shut down our Open Source Higgsfield challenge.
Our read on why they sent it. When the apps people pay for can be rebuilt in the open in two weeks, that’s an uncomfortable thing for a closed platform to watch.
So here’s us reiterating our promise to every builder in the challenge and community, and we’re keeping it:
• The challenge stays open
• Final submissions close tomorrow, Oct 30
• Winners are announced Nov 6, with prizes paid as promised
You showed up for each other. We’re showing up for you.
If we win, we all win!
Comfy out 🫡
Hats off to the folks behind this🫡
Strata by @coldniko:
github.com/Niko1221/Strata
Project Maya by @PeasantSmith: github.com/mw00/project-maya
GPU unlock: github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unloc…
Windows usb route by @Impacifist_rst: github.com/impacifist/Window…
SmokeDev retweeted
STOP TYPING TO HERMES. JUST TALK TO IT. 🎙️🤯
Watch the demo below. It's kind of nuts. 👇
hermes-talk is an open-source plugin that gives Hermes Agent a realtime voice, with all of Hermes's real tools behind it.
What it does:
▸ Live two-way voice you can interrupt mid-sentence
▸ Hands tasks to background agents while you keep talking
▸ Tells you out loud when the work lands
▸ Pulls in your SOULmd and memory, so it already knows you
▸ Asks for a spoken yes before risky actions
▸ OpenAI, Grok or Gemini voices, and runs on your ChatGPT, SuperGrok or X Premium+ sub with no API key
What you can do with it:
▸ Talk through a research task, hand it off, and keep brainstorming while it runs
▸ Check on, steer or stop a running agent without touching the keyboard
▸ Pull your agent into a Discord voice channel
▸ Open the Talk tab in the dashboard and talk from your browser
Typing keeps you at the keyboard waiting on Hermes. Voice lets you hand off work like you would to a teammate, then hear back when it's done.
Built by @ItsSmokeDev. Repo + setup in the first reply. 🔥
Archon by @cole_medin turns your whole dev process into a workflow your agents can't skip.
plan, implement until the tests pass, a gate where I approve, then the PR. same steps every run, on the Claude Code and Codex subs you already pay for
you don't need a video team to grow your brand anymore.
this 49-second video is just HTML. Claude Code wrote every scene in @HeyGen's HyperFrames, the voice is my own clone from @elevenlabs, and the whole process is a skill now
👀
MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights are now public. 428B parameters total, 23B activated per token.
Agentic performance: A generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity — 76.2 on BankerToolBench, 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, 61.7 on OSWorld V2, 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam, and 82.2 on CyberGym.
Efficient by design: MiniMax Sparse Attention and DSpark speculative decoding improve inference efficiency.
Hugging Face:
huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min…
ModelScope:
modelscope.cn/models/MiniMax…
API: platform.minimax.io
M Plan: minimax.io/m-planMiniMax
MCode for desktop: agent.minimax.io/download
SmokeDev retweeted
𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇-𝐔𝐏 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐑𝐀 Ordinals & Bitcoin Ecosystem Updates – Oct 22 2026 .
Shields up, stablecoins on L1, and the artists are still cooking 🛡️
Here are the major stories on bitcoin
THE TEA ☕️
➯ @rodarmor ships ord 0.29.1 with an anchor output fix and a new /r/block recursive endpoint
➯ Ordinals CT is loud about @opensea. @LeonidasNFT pleads for support for Ordinals and Runes.
➯ @orderofnonebtc says the art is finished, the shielded submission fee is paid, and they've had 2 weeks in the @Ord_Dropz review queue.
➯ @ZincWalletApp launch photo is now open.
➯ First Shielded community Space with @Ob1_Wan_Satoshi and @itchatoshi, with @juga_btc translating for the Chinese community.
THE COFFEE
➯ @MelzieQ’s Born in a Lucid Dream listings still live on @ord_net at 0.0048 BTC each, closing around Oct 23.
➯ @utexocom teases USDT launch on bitcoin for "28/11/2026 says “It's coming home"
➯ @RGBHorse hits 50,000+ participants in DarkHorse Genesis in 18 days 🐎 They also ran an AI-assisted Sybil review that flagged 2,300 accounts
➯ @BruceBlue supports the @TapeOutCF initiative to co build optimal mining pools
➯ @subfrostp2p: Alkanes completed its audit with @HalbornSecurity.
➯ @citrea_xyz is going big on privacy and building @crest_btc, a private Bitcoin wallet. Waitlist is open
➯ @HoneyB_BTC raises $5M and is coming to market with institutional RWA yield on BTC, powered by Arch.
➯ @HyperliquidX perps are now on the @xverse Chrome extension.
➯ $QUAQ/$ORDI gets a 1.5x LP boost on @bestinslotxyz BISDEX 🦆 @DomoDucks
➯ @t_wixie: $SHHHHH, the first token deployed with shielded payments, hit 30 sats (about a $500K market cap).
$SHR0UD is still minting at 19%
THE ALPHA
➯ $SHNAKAS claims open Friday from the vault.
➯ @BravoCosto "In Development" is recursive photography, each piece under 900 bytes. 11 left at 0.002 BTC on @ord_net until Sat Oct 24, 3PM WAT.
➯ @millasi_ started a new living collection, "Follow the white rabbit" 🐇
➯ @E_Pieraccini_: "Self-Custody of the Self", a 1/1 is heading to auction on @OrdDropz
➯ @mannequinsnft: Mannequins Noir, 777 shielded Ordinals, is coming to @OrdDropz
➯ @strangersolemn: the Troll gallery is open with all 2,222 trolls on-chain.
➯ @banknotes_btc Coin Toss Challenge is live. #1 on the leaderboard wins a Commemorative Coin, with results on Saturday
➯ @thehdr_btc: the Ordinals Fear & Greed Index now pulls Shielded Ordinals data from @Ord_Dropz
➯ @LiquidiumWTF is teasing "an announcement of an announcement" for Ordinal creators and collectors.
What did I miss ?
SmokeDev retweeted
Kimi K3.1 vs Qwen 4: 3D helicopter
Same prompt, takeoff/land, 3D assembly and exploded views, very similar gen time at around 15-20 minutes for both
China are not playing games anymore, these are very strong
🤝 Paid partnership
crypto taught us not your keys, not your coins
same in AI: not your weights, not your data. your prompts sit on someone else's servers
cloud models for the big thinking. anything sensitive stays local
