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

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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, fiction, dialogue, journaling, and for everyday texting. frontier performance at a 40x cheaper price. we thought it might be useful for people here who like runnin…

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  1. 2026-09-20 21:09 · r/artificial
    we put out a 27b writing model, open weights, eq-bench 4 at 1330
  2. 2026-09-20 20:26 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Hemmingway-1, a 27B open weights model for creative writing (EQ-Bench 4: 1330, Apache-2.0)
  3. 2026-09-20 13:44 · r/LocalLLM
    we made a 27b model for creative writing. performs as good as claude fable 5, at a 40x cheaper price, open weights.

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