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K2 Think V2: a fully sovereign reasoning model

MBZUAI · Significant research

LLM Research Arabic AI Product Open Source

Summary

MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) has released K2 Think V2, a 70 billion parameter open-source general reasoning model built on K2 V2 Instruct. The model excels in complex reasoning benchmarks like AIME2025 and GPQA-Diamond, and features a low hallucination rate with long context reasoning capabilities. K2 Think V2 is fully sovereign and open, from pre-training through post-training, using IFM-curated data and a Guru dataset. Why it matters: This release contributes to closing the gap between community-owned reproducible AI and proprietary models, particularly in reasoning and long-context understanding for Arabic NLP tasks.

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MBZUAI · K2 Think V2 · reasoning model · open-source · AI

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