Research
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 re-educated with a more Western worldview
The Register · By Thomas Claburn ·
The Brief
- Nous Research, an AI lab based in Austin, Texas, has re-educated Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight large language model from Alibaba.
- The re-education was done through training, according to The Register.
- The stated goal is to make the model forget its Chinese origins and adopt a more Western worldview.
Why it matters
Developers who use or deploy open-weight Qwen models may encounter modified derivatives whose behaviour and outputs differ from the original Alibaba release.
Who’s affected
- Teams using the open-weight Qwen3.8-27B model
- Qwen3.8-27B
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An American AI lab has re-educated Qwen3.8-27B, a popular open-weight large language model from Alibaba, so the software forgets its Chinese ancestry. Nous Research, an Austin, Texas-based AI lab, has subjected the model to re-education through training, not to be confused with…