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Institute of Foundation Models (IFM)September 3, 2026

K2 Horizon

Open Source
Open Source AI
Foundation Models
Agentic AI
Edge AI

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### TL;DR

K2 Horizon is a connected fleet of six open-source AI models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters, designed for tasks spanning edge devices to enterprise-grade reasoning. The release is uniquely transparent, providing full access to training data, intermediate checkpoints, training logs, and methodologies to support open science and reproducibility.

Key Insights & Metrics

Pricing
Free (Open Source)
Cost structure
Version
N/A
Current release version
Hardware
Ranges from 1–2 GB VRAM on smartwatches/wearables for the 0.9B model, scaling up to 200–400+ GB VRAM across multi-GPU enterprise clusters for the 375B MoE model
Compute requirements
Category
Open Source
Licensing model
Region
United Arab Emirates
Primary region

Key Features

  • Fully open-source release including weights, training data, code, and intermediate checkpoints
  • Mixture-of-Value-Attention (MoVA) architecture for high-efficiency sparse performance
  • Diffusion distillation for lossless 3x inference speedup
  • Unified architecture and interface across all six model sizes for seamless scaling
  • State-of-the-art performance in small-scale classes (0.9B, 3.7B, 7B)
  • Comprehensive support for agentic workflows and tool-use
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