What are the hardware requirements for RakutenAI 7B Chat?

RakutenAI 7B Chat requires approximately 14.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed RakutenAI 7B Chat and how large is it?

RakutenAI 7B Chat is developed by Rakuten, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate RakutenAI 7B Chat?

RakutenAI 7B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

RakutenAI 7B Chat by Rakuten — VRAM 14.8GB, 32K context

Name: RakutenAI 7B Chat
Author: Rakuten

RakutenAI 7B Chat is an open-source language model by Rakuten. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.8GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Arxiv:2403.15484 Base model:finetune:rakuten/ra... Base model:rakuten/rakutenai-7... Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Ja Mistral Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Rakuten/RakutenAI-7B-chat

RakutenAI 7B Chat Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, chatbot

Use Cases

Limitations:

can produce biased, inaccurate, or unsafe outputs

Additional Notes

Extended vocabulary from 32k to 48k for enhanced Japanese tokenization.

Supported Languages

Japanese (high), English (competitive)

Training Details

Data Sources:

JSNLI, RTE, KUCI, BELEBELE, JCS, JNLI, Dolly-15K, OpenAssistant1

Methodology:

fine-tuning for instruction-tuning and chat-tuning

Context Length:

4096

Model Architecture:

Mistral

Input Output

Input Format:

custom chat template or plain text format

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	RakutenAI 7B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Rakuten/RakutenAI-7B-chat
Base Model(s)	RakutenAI 7B Rakuten/RakutenAI-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	Rakuten
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.8 GB: 2-of-2 10.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.8 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en ja
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.34.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	48000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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