The United Arab Emirates launches a small but strong model

United Arab Emirates (Emirates) has released an open source model that performs advanced thinking in addition to the best offers from both the United States and China – one of the strongest signs so far that the major investments in the country are in artificial intelligence They began to bear fruit.

The new model, K2 Think, comes from researchers at Mohammed bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) in the Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. The model-one of the first sovereign “sovereign” artificial intelligence models is provided to the technical developments needed for thinking-crazy by the G42, which is the Emirati technology group supported by the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi. G42 runs the model on a group of Cerbers chips, which is an alternative to NVIDIA devices.

K2 Thinking is one of the contributions of the United Arab Emirates to the global race to show the ingenuity of technology that is widely expected to have huge economic and geopolitical implications. The United States and China are the dominant players in this competition. But many smaller countries, especially those with great wealth for investment, are also racing to develop their “sovereign” artificial intelligence models.

K2 Think is relatively modest in size, with 32 billion teachers. It is not a big linguistic model, but a specialized model in thinking, able to answer complex questions through a type of simulation trading instead of quickly manufacturing information to provide outputs. For such tasks, researchers say they are working equally with thinking models from Openai and Deepseek, which have more than 200 billion teachers.

“This is a technical innovation, in my opinion, disruption,” said Eric Xing, MBZUAI president and Amnesty International researcher for WIRED before today’s announcement.

Sheng says the model shows a particularly effective mix of a number of modern technical innovations. This exact control includes long chains of simulation thinking; The process of planning an agent that collapses problems in various ways; And enhance the learning that trains the model to reach the right answers. Other innovations allow the model to be presented very efficiently on the brain chips.

“How to make a smaller model function in addition to a more powerful position – this is a lesson for learning, if others want to learn from us,” Xing said.

Xing adds that the K2 Think was developed using several thousand graphics processing units (refusing to give an accurate number), and the final training round includes 200-300 chips. The plan is to integrate K2 in full thinking in the coming months. Open mbzuai form and Publishing a technical report This separates how the various innovations were combined to create.

Other countries in the Middle East, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, invest extensively in infrastructure and research. President Donald Trump traveled to the region in May to He announced many artificial intelligence deals that include American technology companies.

the The UAE leadership has invested billions of dollars To establish itself as a strategic important research center. The country is already Some advanced research revealed artificial intelligence and created a site outside In Silicon Valley. The UAE It reduced its relationships with China In exchange for reaching the American silicon needed to train border models.

“By proving that the smaller and most trick models can compete with the largest systems, this achievement explains how Abu Dhabi is formulating the next wave of global innovation,” Ping Xiao, CEO of G42, and a member of MBZUAI, said in a statement.