EQ-Bench 4

Swiss-South African lab open-sources 27B creative-writing model Hemmingway-1

A small Swiss-South African lab open-sourced Hemmingway-1, a 27B creative-writing fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B, under Apache-2.0 with bf16 weights (~54.7 GB) on HuggingFace and vLLM compatibility. It scores 1330 on EQ-Bench 4 and beats tested frontier models on the lab's internal blind writing benchmarks for communication and human-likeness, while math, code, and factual recall are unchanged from the base model, making it a deliberate specialist.