{"id":13518,"date":"2025-09-14T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:08:39","slug":"uae-lab-releases-open-source-model-to-rival-chinas-deepseek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/uae-lab-releases-open-source-model-to-rival-chinas-deepseek\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China\u2019s DeepSeek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is interesting as I have a theory that the Antichrist is Dubai’s crown prince<\/a>. So anything with the UAE, of which Dubai is a member nation, is of particular interest, and they’re home of the Abrahamic Family House<\/a>. And I’ve also thought the Image of the Beast in revelation setup in the temple could be an AI entity<\/a>, as the world would fawn over a truly sentient super intelligence that could be faked by a supernatural fallen angel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/uae-lab-releases-open-source-model-to-rival-chinas-deepseek-2000656197<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The United Arab Emirates hopes to compete with the U.S. and China in the global AI race.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Ece Yildirim <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI, and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and China\u2019s DeepSeek<\/a> in standard benchmark tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20x larger,\u201d the lab wrote in a press release<\/a> on Tuesday. DeepSeek\u2019s R1 has 671 billion parameters, though only 37 billion<\/a> are active. Meta\u2019s latest Llama 4 models range from 17 billion to 288 billion active parameters<\/a>. OpenAI doesn\u2019t share parameter information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers also claim that K2 Think leads \u201call open-source models in math performance\u201d across several benchmarks. The model is intended to be more focused on math, coding, and scientific research than most other AI chatbots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emirati lab\u2019s selling point for the model is similar to DeepSeek\u2019s strategy that disrupted<\/a> the AI market earlier this year: optimized efficiency that will have better or the same computing power at a lower cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy proving that smaller, more resourceful models can rival the largest reasoning systems, this milestone marks the beginning of the next wave of AI innovation,\u201d Peng Xiao, council member of Abu Dhabi\u2019s AI and Advanced Technology Council, said in the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiao is also the CEO of G42, an Emirati AI development company that co-launched the K2 Think model. The company last made headlines for inking a multibillion-dollar data center deal with the Trump administration earlier this year, which has since been mired in national security concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lab is also aiming to be transparent in everything, \u201copen-sourcing not just models but entire development processes\u201d that provide \u201cresearchers with complete materials including training code, datasets, and model checkpoints,\u201d IFM said in a press release<\/a> from May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long-term plan is to incorporate K2 Think into a full LLM in the coming months, WIRED<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booming Emirati investment in AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Emiratis are serious about AI. The country counted 672 new AI companies between June 2023 and June 2024, making it the fastest-growing AI cluster<\/a> in the Middle East and North Africa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lab behind K2 Think was established by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, which has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and two research hubs in Silicon Valley and Paris. It was founded a couple of years ago as part of the Emirati government\u2019s AI overhaul strategy, called Artificial Intelligence 2031. The university\u2019s president is Chinese-born American researcher Dr. Eric Xing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emirati AI overhaul has also benefited American companies. Abu Dhabi state AI fund MGX, chaired by the UAE\u2019s national security adviser, is a founding partner of Trump\u2019s Project Stargate<\/a>, and the fund has previously invested<\/a> in OpenAI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also announced<\/a> in May that Abu Dhabi and Washington were partnering to create the largest AI data center cluster outside of the U.S., built and operated by G42 \u2014the company that co-launched K2 Think on Tuesday\u2014 and with the help of Nvidia, OpenAI, Cisco, Oracle, and Japanese firm Softbank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that deal has faced U.S. regulator scrutiny<\/a> over security concerns<\/a>, particularly regarding the UAE\u2019s relationship with China. Chinese tech and AI firms like Huawei and Alibaba have been expanding their influence in the UAE and the Middle East at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G42 specifically had several Chinese investments, which the company reportedly<\/a> got rid of after pressure from the Biden administration over a $1.5 billion strategic investment<\/a> by Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI is the new oil in the Middle East<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Emirates\u2019 growing bet on AI is driven by a desire to diversify<\/a> investments and reduce its economic dependence on fossil fuels like oil and gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trend is seen in the rest of the Arab world as well, particularly in the oil-rich Gulf states. Saudi Arabia created a $100 billion AI investment fund<\/a> last year as part of an effort to diversify its oil-reliant economy by 2030. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi Arabian DataVolt is moving forward with plans to invest $20 billion in AI data centers and energy infrastructure in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere in the Gulf, Qatar Investment Authority was a significant investor<\/a> in American AI company Anthropic in a $13 billion funding round last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More countries seek to challenge U.S. and Chinese dominance in AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A growing list of countries is seeking to join the battle for global AI dominance<\/a> that\u2019s currently dominated by American and Chinese companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the rest of Asia, Singapore is a rising power, with AI-friendly regulatory oversight that has spurred the launch of AI innovation hubs from tech giants like Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Europe, the French are making major AI plays. The French AI startup Mistral<\/a> just secured a $1.5 billion investment by Dutch semiconductor maker ASML on Tuesday. Mistral is considered a major competitor to OpenAI in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is interesting as I have a theory that the Antichrist is Dubai’s crown prince. So anything with the UAE, of which Dubai is a member nation, is of particular interest, and they’re home of the Abrahamic Family House. And I’ve also thought the Image of the Beast in revelation setup in the temple could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13519,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}