Two-Person Lab Open-Sources 27B Writing Model Hemmingway-1, 1330 on EQ-Bench 4
lukinator644 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A two-person lab (Switzerland + South Africa) released Hemmingway-1, an Apache-2.0 open-weights writing specialist built on the Qwen3.8-27B base, targeting stories, dialogue, roleplay and emails.
- Scores 1330 on EQ-Bench 4 — behind Claude Fable 5 but ahead of GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8
- Authors say blind tests read as more human than the frontier models compared
- Runs on a single 24GB GPU quantized; free web app at hemmingway.io
- Deliberately specialized: math, code and facts stay at base-model level; English-first
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