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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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.”