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rai

by Prayas Abhinav prayasabhinav/rai

rai is an open-weight model for question answering from Prayas Abhinav, released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. It has 33M parameters and a 512-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 0.1 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index. It draws 51 downloads a month.

What it is. An extractive question-answering model. Given a question and a short typed answer, it returns the phrase in the answer that answers the question, or nothing. It cannot generate text.

Parameters33M
Context512
Weights132.9 MB
Licensecc-by-4.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads51

Runs On

What it takes to serve rai (33M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.1 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.0 GB 0.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.0 GB 0.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 9, 2026.

rai on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision

Model Card

By Prayas Abhinav, published under cc-by-4.0, revision 0dbf31fd2c41.

rai reader 0.3.7 — model card

What it is. An extractive question-answering model. Given a question and a short typed answer, it returns the phrase in the answer that answers the question, or nothing. It cannot generate text. It is the reading part of rai, a tool that says only whether a description is complete under a notion of completeness written down in advance. Every decision after the reading is made in plain code.

Trained from. deepset/minilm-uncased-squad2 (CC-BY-4.0), deepset's fine-tune of Microsoft's MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased (MIT) on SQuAD 2.0. Same architecture, 33M parameters, nothing added. Credit to deepset and Microsoft.

Read the full model card (992 words)

Configuration

Architecture
BertForQuestionAnswering
Context length (tokens)
512
Layers
12
Hidden size
384
Feed-forward size
1,536
Attention heads
12
Vocabulary size
30,522
Model type
bert

Identity and Version

Repository
prayasabhinav/rai
Publisher
Prayas Abhinav
Task
Question answering
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
33M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
0dbf31fd2c4156c288d43f1952a7e7fba8ee2972
First published
2026-09-22
Last updated
2026-09-27

Files and Weights

7 files, 133.6 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 132.9 MB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 132.9 MB
Configuration1 file · 720 B
Tokenizer2 files · 712.2 KB
Documentation2 files · 6.9 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights132.9 MB c0aab2b6767d
config.jsonConfiguration720 B —
LICENSE.mdDocumentation838 B —
README.mdDocumentation6.1 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer711.6 KB —
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer598 B —

License and Download

License
cc-by-4.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
132.9 MB
Download from Prayas Abhinav

Released by Prayas Abhinav through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published132.9 MB
16-bit0.1 GB
8-bit0.0 GB
4-bit0.0 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About rai

How much GPU memory does rai need?

About 0.1 GB at 16-bit and 0 GB at 4-bit: the weights (33M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run rai on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use rai commercially?

Yes. rai is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. CC BY 4.0 permits sharing and adapting the work, including commercially, provided the creator is credited and changes are indicated.

What is rai's context length?

512 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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