PUBG creator Krafton aims to deliver a global gaming hit from a budding development studio in India, leveraging the presence in one of its top markets to define its next stage of growth
The company behind PUBG just trained its own 29B Local AI model from scratch.
And the architecture is interesting.
KRAFTON’s new Raon-1 mini is …
🧠 28.8B total parameters
⚡ only 4.3B active/token
💾 official Q4_K_M → 19.7GB
📚 262K context
🔓 Apache 2.0
🤖 reasoning + agent/tool use
18 of its 25 layers use fixed-state linear attention.
Only 7 layers maintain a growing KV cache.
KRAFTON says those layers use only ~8 KiB of BF16 KV per token.
So even at the full 262K context, that’s roughly:
👉 ~2GB of growing KV cache before other runtime/state overhead.
And in KRAFTON’s reported comparisons, this new 30B-A4B model beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 11 of 18 listed benchmarks.
Lots of new models coming for Qwen3.6-35B recently.
⚠️ Preview release. KRAFTON’s benchmark results. Upstream llama.cpp support is still pending and KRAFTON provides its own branch today.
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