Hemmingway-1, a 27B open weights model for creative writing (EQ-Bench 4: 1330, Apache-2.0)

Hemmingway-1 is a newly released 27B open-weights model, based on qwen3.8-27b and licensed under Apache-2.0. It is specifically trained for creative writing tasks such as stories, dialogue, roleplay, texts, and emails. The model scored 1330 on EQ-Bench 4, placing it behind Claude Fable 5 but ahead of gpt-5.5 and Opus 4.8. Blind tests indicated it produced more human-like output compared to frontier models, and it can run on a single GPU.