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MBZUAI K2-Think

MBZUAI · 2025 · LLM · UAE

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A to Z

A · App
No
B · Built By
MBZUAI
C · CEO & Politics
Eric Xing (President) — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date
2025
E · Expertise
Intermediate+
F · Free Tier
Yes
G · Generates
Text only
H · Deployment
Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs
Text
J · Jurisdiction
UAE
K · Key Staffers
Eric Xing (President), MBZUAI research teams
L · Languages
English-primary
M · Model Type
LLM
N · Safety Issues
None reported
O · Open Source
Yes — open weights
P · Pricing
Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating
4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.15
R · What Makes It Special
32B reasoning system built on Qwen2.5 that MBZUAI reports matches or beats much larger models such as GPT-OSS 120B and DeepSeek V3.1, combining long chain-of-thought fine-tuning, RL with verifiable rewards, agentic planning and test-time scaling.
S · Stock / Status
University
T · Training Cutoff
[UNKNOWN]
U · Users
[UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat
No
W · Weights
Downloadable
X · X Handle
@MBZUAI
Y · Year Founded
[UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line
Open-weights LLM from MBZUAI, released 2025.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

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