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The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is a research institute at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, dedicated to developing radically open-source frontier AI models. IFM releases weights, training code, checkpoints and data-construction recipes so researchers can reproduce and extend its work. Its K2 series has scaled from Amber (Dec 2023) through K2 V2, K2 Think and, in September 2026, the K2 Horizon fleet.