we made a 27b model for creative writing. performs as good as claude fable 5, at a 40x cheaper price, open weights.

hey! we're a small swiss and south african lab and we just put out hemmingway-1. it's a 27b model we trained specifically for roleplay, creative writing, dialogue, stories, and for everyday texting. frontier performance at a 40x cheaper price. we thought it might be useful for people here who like running models on their own hardware. it benchmarks at absolute frontier level. on eq-bench 4 it scores 1330, right behind claude fable 5, and beating many other frontier models including gpt-5.5 and opus 4.8. you can see our internal benchmarks on the model card: hemmingway.io/model/ the testers we gave it to told us it's the best ai they've ever used for writing and that it genuinely sounds human. the weights are public, so you can run it yourself. we also built an app for it. its autopilot function answers your emails and texts for you. mac, windows, android. try it out for free at hemmingway.io! We are looking forward to any feedback we can get! submitted by /u/Lukinator6446 [link] [comments]

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Source: r/ollama | 2026-09-20