# KRAFTON releases Raon-1-mini preview under Apache 2.0

> The Korean game studio behind PUBG puts out a compact, permissively licensed language model as an early preview.

Published by The Open Weights on Oct 21, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/raon-1-mini-pakp

## Key facts

- Company: KRAFTON
- Model: Raon-1-mini (preview)
- Version: 1-mini-preview
- Category: Text / LLM
- Modalities: Text / LLM
- License: Apache 2.0 (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Context window: 262K tokens
- Architecture: Raon1MiniForCausalLM
- Precision: FP8
- Weights size: 31.9 GB
- Significance: minor
- Published: 2026-10-21
- Last verified: 2026-10-23
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/raon-1-mini-pakp

KRAFTON, the South Korean game company best known for PUBG, has quietly stepped into open-weight language models with [Raon-1-mini-preview](https://huggingface.co/KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview), a compact text model released on Hugging Face under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

As the name suggests, this is a preview rather than a finished product. KRAFTON has positioned Raon-1-mini as a small, text-only model, though the published record leaves key details — parameter count, context window, and benchmark results — unstated for now. That makes this more of a signal of intent than a drop-in replacement for established small models.

## Why it matters

Game studios are not the usual source of foundation models, and KRAFTON's entry is a reminder that the open-weight field is broadening beyond the familiar AI labs. A few reasons this is worth watching:

- The Apache 2.0 license allows commercial use and modification, lowering the barrier for developers to experiment.
- Compact models are increasingly favored for on-device and latency-sensitive applications, including games.
- A "preview" label suggests more complete releases, and possibly larger siblings, may follow.

For now, the practical takeaway is modest: developers curious about KRAFTON's approach can download and test the weights today. The more interesting question is whether Raon grows into a sustained model family, and what a company with deep interactive-entertainment experience chooses to optimize for.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview)

## Sources

- [KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview](https://huggingface.co/KRAFTON/Raon-1-mini-preview) — Hugging Face, Oct 21, 2026

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