Reddit r/MachineLearningSeptember 20, 2026
Hemmingway-1, an Apache-2.0 27B creative-writing fine-tune (Qwen3.8-27B base, EQ-Bench 4 1330)[R]
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we're a small lab (switzerland + south africa) and just open-sourced our first model: a 27b fine-tune of qwen3.8-27b specialized for creative writing and short-form personal text (stories, dialogue, roleplay, texts, emails). apache-2.0, plain weights on huggingface, 54.7 gb bf16, vllm-compatible, mtp layer included. results: eq-bench 4 1330. on our internal writing benchmarks (blind pairwise, both presentation orders, judged by a model that was not one of the competitors) it comes first on commu