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The Institute of Foundation Models at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence( MBZUAI) and G42 has announced the launch of K2 Think, a leading open-source system for advanced AI reasoning.

The International Data Center Authority( IDCA) has announced it has signed a formal agreement with the Sultanate of Oman on developing and expanding its digital economy and helping the country build the Oman Digital Triangle.

K2 Think embodies a new approach to building smarter, more efficient AI. With just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20X larger. This breakthrough in parameter efficiency makes K2 Think a powerful alternative for advanced reasoning, redefining what is possible with compact architectures.

Built on six pillars of innovation, K2 Think represents a new class of reasoning model. It employs long chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning to strengthen logical depth, followed by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to sharpen accuracy on hard problems. Agentic planning allows the model to decompose complex challenges before reasoning through them, while testtime scaling techniques further boost adaptability.

K2 Think ranks among the industry’ s top reasoning systems, leading all open-source models in math performance across AIME’ 24 /’ 25, HMMT’ 25 and OMNI-Math-HARD.

The agreement comes after months of multilateral and bilateral talks between IDCA and the relevant key government entities including the Ministries of Energy and Ministry of Economy.

Under this national agreement, IDCA’ s scope is to devise and launch the National Digital Infrastructure Roadmap, establish the National Digital Infrastructure Standards, the National Digital Infrastructure Education and the Oman Digital Triangle( ODT), the first of its kind in the world for three highly interconnected digital hubs and AI super-clusters.

ODT will provide the GW-scale capacities for data centre builds, the connectivity and the human capital necessary to operate mainly AI data centres and super-clusters through the geographical diversity and resilience that can be provided across the nation for AI Cloud providers.

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