"The new model, K2 Think, comes from researchers at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) located in UAE's capital Abu Dhabi. The model-one of the first so-called "sovereign" AI models that incorporates technical advances needed for reasoning-is being made available for free by G42, an Emirati tech conglomerate backed by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds. G42 is running the model on a cluster of Cerberas chips, an alternative to Nvidia's hardware."
"K2 Think is relatively modest in size, with 32 billion parameters. It is not a complete large language model but rather a model specialized for reasoning, capable of answering complex questions through a simulated kind of deliberation rather than quickly synthesizing information to provide an output. For such tasks, the researchers say it performs on par with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek, which have more than 200 billion parameters."
K2 Think is an open-source reasoning-focused model developed at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and released by G42. The model contains 32 billion parameters and is specialized for simulated deliberation to answer complex questions rather than for rapid synthesis. G42 operates K2 Think on a cluster of Cerberas chips as an alternative to Nvidia hardware. K2 Think matches the reasoning performance of larger models from OpenAI and DeepSeek that exceed 200 billion parameters. The design combines recent technical innovations, including fine-tuning on long chains of simulated reasoning and agentic planning techniques. The release underscores substantial UAE investment in sovereign AI capabilities.
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