Abu Dhabi’s top tech university has launched an AI system capable of advanced reasoning that researchers say ranks alongside the best open models from the US and China, accelerating the United Arab Emirates’ push into “sovereign” AI.
The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) on Tuesday released its latest model, K2 Think, alongside a complete disclosure of the data, algorithms and other code that was used to build it, as the country seeks to gain an edge in a market that has become dominated by Chinese AI groups.
Eric Xing, MBZUAI president, said the state-backed university was filling a gap left by Silicon Valley firms such as Meta that have pulled back from openly publishing the research behind their AI systems.