KRAFTON and SK Telecom release a 21B-parameter speech LLM ranked #1 in Korean
Kangwook_Lee · x · 2026-07-29
KRAFTON AI and SK Telecom have released A.X K2 Raon-Speech, a 21B-parameter speech LLM trained from scratch.
- It supports speech understanding, speech generation, tool use, and emotion recognition.
- The team says it ranks #1 in Korean and #3 in English.
- The model is hosted on Hugging Face and the post links to the release page.
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