Director at MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models
Led development of K2 Think reasoning model that rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek at fraction of the size.
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“Overseeing K2 Horizon release strategy, emphasizing complete transparency with weights, code, training data and methodology.”
“Director of MBZUAI's Silicon Valley research lab who discussed K2 Horizon models designed to run on devices from watches to data centers.”
Abu Dhabi's MBZUAI released K2 Think, a 32-billion-parameter reasoning model that matches OpenAI and DeepSeek's performance at a fraction of the size and cost.
“Led development of K2 Think reasoning model that rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek at fraction of the size.”