MBZUAI
MBZUAI ranks #27 of 87 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 1 ranked model. Its best model is K2 Think V2 at 49.4 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following. All models ship open weights.
- Provider rank
- #27
- by best model
- Best index
- 49.4
- K2 Think V2 (thinking)
- Ranked models
- 1
- 2 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
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Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
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Every MBZUAI model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
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| 1 | K2 Think V2thinkingMBZUAIopen | 49.4±7 | – | – | – | 262k | – | – |
| 2 | K2 Horizon 375B A23BMBZUAIopen | – | – | – | – | 524k | – | – |
Latest news
- Building AI that understands Arabic, dialects and identityFast Company Middle East · 7 Sept 2026
- MBZUAI Launches K2 Horizon Fleet of Fully Open AI ModelsITP.net · 4 Sept 2026
- UAE's AI university introduces world's largest 'fully open' modelsthenationalnews.com · 3 Sept 2026
- MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models launches K2 Horizon, the world’s largest fully open AI models in historyzawya.com · 3 Sept 2026
- MBZUAI – Building Humanity’s Symbiotic Relationship With AIForbes · 27 Oct 2025
- MBZUAI Launches K2 Think V2: UAE's Fully Sovereign, Next-Generation Reasoning SystemPR Newswire · 27 Jan 2026
- UAE Government partners with MBZUAI to train 80,000 federal staff in Agentic AIEdTech Innovation Hub · 26 May 2026
- MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AIMIT News · 8 Oct 2025