Hemmingway-1: Apache-2.0 27B writing-only model scores 1330 on EQ-Bench 4, beats GPT-5.5
Lukinator6446 · reddit · 2026-09-21
Altworld released Hemmingway-1, an open-weights creative-writing model: a Qwen3-27B base trained purely for writing — stories, dialogue, roleplay, texts, emails — under Apache-2.0.
- Scores 1330 on EQ-Bench 4, behind Claude Fable 5 but ahead of GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8
- In the team's own blind tests, it read as more human than the frontier models compared
- A specialist: math, code, and factual ability remain at base-model level; English-first
- 27B runs on a single GPU
Weights are on Hugging Face (Altworld/Hemmingway-1), with a free app at hemmingway.io.
Related event: Open Writing Model Hemmingway-1 Beats GPT-5.5 on EQ-Bench(2 posts)→
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