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MBZUAI and G42 Launch K2 Think: A Leading Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning
K2 Think embodies a new approach to building smarter, more efficient AI. With just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20X larger. This breakthrough in parameter efficiency makes K2 Think a powerful alternative for advanced reasoning, redefining what is possible with compact architectures.
Built on six pillars of innovation, K2 Think represents a new class of reasoning model. It employs to strengthen logical depth, followed by to sharpen accuracy on hard problems. allows the model to decompose complex challenges before reasoning through them, while techniques further boost adaptability. In addition, K2 Think will soon be available on Cerebras' wafer-scale, , enabling researchers and innovators worldwide to push the boundaries of reasoning performance at lightning-fast speed. With optimized for Cerebras hardware, K2 Think will achieve unprecedented throughput of 2000 tokens per second, making it both one of the fastest and most efficient reasoning systems in existence.
K2 Think ranks among the industry's top reasoning systems, leading all open-source models in math performance across AIME '24/'25, HMMT '25, and OMNI-Math-HARD.
More than a technical achievement, K2 Think is a defining moment for AI in the UAE. It reflects how open innovation and close public–private partnerships can position Abu Dhabi as a global leader in AI, demonstrating that the future of reasoning will be shaped not only by size, but by ingenuity and collaboration.
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Unlike most "open" AI models that stop at releasing weights, K2 Think is fully open source — from training data and parameter weights to software code for deployment and test-time optimization. This new level of transparency ensures that every step of how the model learns to reason can be studied, reproduced, and extended by the global research community.
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K2 Think builds on a growing family of UAE-developed open-source models, including Jais (the world's most advanced Arabic LLM), NANDA (Hindi), and SHERKALA (Kazakh), and extends the pioneering legacy of K2- 65B , the world's first fully reproducible open-source foundation model released in 2024.
K2 Think is available today at https://www.k2think.ai/ and on Hugging Face.
MBZUAI is a research-focused university in Abu Dhabi , and the first university dedicated entirely to the advancement of science through AI. The university empowers the next generation of AI leaders, driving innovation and impactful applications of AI through world-class education and interdisciplinary research. In 2025, MBZUAI launched its first ever undergraduate program, a Bachelor of Science in AI, with two distinct streams: Business and Engineering. For more information, please visit www.mbzuai.ac.ae.
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