Hemmingway-1, a 27B Creative Writing Model Based on Qwen3.8, Released

A small research lab based in Switzerland and South Africa has open-sourced 'Hemmingway-1', a creative writing-specialized fine-tuned model based on Qwen3.8-27B. This model is specialized for short-form personal text generation, including stories, dialogue, role-playing, and emails.

Technical Specifications and License

• License: Apache-2.0
• Base Model: Qwen3.8-27B
• Format: BF16 (54.7 GB), vLLM compatible, includes MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) layers
• Distribution: Weights released on Hugging Face

Performance and Features

• EQ-Bench 4: Recorded a score of 1330
• Internal Benchmarks: Ranked first compared to competing frontier models on CommunicationBench (1026) and Human-likeness (1032), while noting the limitations of LLM-based evaluation.
• Specialization: Mathematical, coding, and fact-checking capabilities are maintained at the base model level, making it a specialized model focused on creative and human-like text generation.