The Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI

K2 HorizonFrontier performance. Radical openness.

Meet K2 Horizon: The largest fully open-source model launch in AI history, spanning six models that give you greater choice in capabilities, scale and deployment options, along with open access to training code and data.

Our enterprise-ready flagship model, built to compete with leading open-weight models on coding and agentic work.

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With complete visibility into model training and evaluations, advanced agentic capabilities, and an efficient cost per task, our newest K2 generation gives researchers and builders the right-size foundation for dependable, long-context, agentic applications at every scale.

Well-rounded capabilities

K2 Horizon Performance Evaluation

K2 Horizon benchmark results across twelve evaluations, comparing Horizon models with leading open and proprietary models.

A glass box, not a black box

Verifiable AI requires going beyond open weights. We offer granular transparency into our training code, training data composition, and evaluations. Inspect how K2 Horizon was built, reproduce it, then modify it.

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Flexing across everyday use-cases

  • RFP Review without the grind Procurement
  • Your Handbook, Answered Instantly People & HR
  • Your Data, Dashboard-Ready Data
  • RFP Review without the grind Procurement
  • Spot Billing errors every invoice line Finance

Unlocking future breakthroughs across industries

K2 isn't the easy summit. It's the one that proves what's possible.

  • Amber Dec 2023
  • K2 Think Sep 2025
  • K2 V2 Dec 2025
  • K2 Think V2 Jan 2026
  • K2 Horizon SEP 2026

K2 is a critical part of IFM’s mission to make foundational AI a shared resource. We release some of the most transparent models in the world so that researchers and builders can advance on top of them.