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UAE Lab Releases Six Fully Open AI Models
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— Sep 3, 2026
The UAE’s MBZUAI-estab lished Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon, a fleet of six fully open AI models spanning 0.9B to 375B parameters with weights, code, training data and methodologies, signaling a push for global openness and local leadership in AI research. This comes amid a broader debate on open-weight versus fully open models, with Chinese open models closing the gap to frontier systems and US policy debates weighing restrictions on advanced Chinese AI, while advocates urge transparency to enable reproducibility and safe progress.
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