LLM Reference

Rakuten AI 3.0

Released
2026-03-17
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 30d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditional

Rakuten AI 3.0 is a released general LLM work model with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
RakutenAI
Released
2026-03-17
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
multilingual
Openness
Open weights
License
Llama 3 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
Training
Pretrained
Created by

E-commerce and AI-powered services.

Tokyo, Japan
Founded 1997
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Rakuten Group's large-scale AI model released March 17, 2026. Japan's largest high-performance AI model as of release. Focused on Japanese language and regional markets. Full technical specifications not publicly available.

Rakuten AI 3.0 is an open-weight model in the RakutenAI family. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Rakuten AI 3.0 yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.