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Krafton releases Raon-1 mini preview, a 30B-A4B MoE model with 262,144 token context

KRAFTON AI announced a preview of its Raon-1 mini language model, a 30B-A4B Mixture‑of‑Experts system built from scratch. The model uses 18 linear attention layers and 7 full attention layers, and it supports up to 262,144 tokens of context. It runs on a single NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU (32 GB VRAM) and offers quantization in MXFP8 and NVFP4 formats.

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  • Raon-1 mini is a 30B-A4B MoE model with 18 linear and 7 full attention layers
  • Supports up to 262,144 tokens of context and runs on a single NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB VRAM)
  • Sparse MoE activates 6 of 128 experts plus 1 shared, using 4.3B of the 28.8B parameters per token

Raon-1 mini’s sparse MoE activates six of 128 routed experts plus one shared expert per token, using 4.3B of the 28.8B total parameters. The preview includes a DFlash2 draft model for speculative decoding, delivering up to 2.18× higher output throughput on a single NVIDIA B300 compared with autoregressive decoding. The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license, with open‑weight weights, and can be accessed via a free limited‑time playground or through hosted API access after agreeing to separate Hosted Access Terms. The release is labeled a preview, and the article notes that specs and results may change before the final version.

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KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview · Hugging Face

huggingface.co · 21 October 2026

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