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“The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI,” writes Gizmodo, “and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet.
“An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek in standard benchmark tests.”
“With just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20x larger,” the lab wrote in a press…
