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Building an AI model that actually speaks Hindi

Thursday, 26 March, 2026

Building an AI model that actually speaks Hindi

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MBZUAI’s Nanda models for Hindi and English show that effective multilingual AI depends on cultural and linguistic design choices.

MBZUAI launches K2 Think V2: UAE’s fully sovereign, next-generation reasoning system

Tuesday, 27 January, 2026

MBZUAI launches K2 Think V2: UAE’s fully sovereign, next-generation reasoning system

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The 70-billion parameter advanced reasoning system is now built on the K2-V2 base model – the Institute of Foundation Models' frontier-class open-source foundation model.

K2 Think V2: a fully sovereign reasoning model

Tuesday, 27 January, 2026

K2 Think V2: a fully sovereign reasoning model

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MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models has released its first fully sovereign reasoning model with a new version of K2 Think. 

Inception, Cerebras and MBZUAI Release Jais 2 – the next generation of the world’s leading Arabic open-weight LLM

Tuesday, 9 December, 2025

Inception, Cerebras and MBZUAI Release Jais 2 – the next generation of the world’s leading Arabic open-weight LLM

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Powered by a redesigned architecture and cleaner training data, Jais delivers stronger reasoning, greater fluency across Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and regional dialects, and strong performance in English. It is engineered to navigate real-world linguistic behavior, including code-switching and informal tone, while maintaining advanced technical and creative capabilities.

K2: An open source model that delivers frontier capabilities

Friday, 5 December, 2025

K2: An open source model that delivers frontier capabilities

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MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models has released its latest version of K2 – a 70-billion-parameter, reasoning-centric foundation model designed not just to perform well, but to be fully inspectable.

What reinforcement learning can teach language models about reasoning

Monday, 1 December, 2025

What reinforcement learning can teach language models about reasoning

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GURU, a new benchmark from the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI, exposes the uneven ways reasoning transfers between core domains.

How MBZUAI built PAN, an interactive, general world model capable of long-horizon simulation

Thursday, 13 November, 2025

How MBZUAI built PAN, an interactive, general world model capable of long-horizon simulation

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Developed by MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models, PAN doesn’t just render visuals; it simulates steerable futures you can guide with natural language.

MBZUAI launches K2 Think Hackathon to turn ideas into real world impact

Tuesday, 14 October, 2025

MBZUAI launches K2 Think Hackathon to turn ideas into real world impact

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has launched the K2 Think Hackathon, an international challenge inviting innovators, developers, researchers, founders and students from secondary and high schools to build groundbreaking applications powered by K2 Think, a leading open-source system for advanced reasoning.

MBZUAI and G42 Launch K2 Think: A Leading Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning

Tuesday, 9 September, 2025

MBZUAI and G42 Launch K2 Think: A Leading Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning

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The Institute of Foundation Models at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and G42 today announced the launch of K2 Think, a leading open-source system for advanced AI reasoning.

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