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IFM releases K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B with 512K context and competitive frontier-class results

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IFM has released K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B, a Mixture-of-Experts model with Mixture-of-Values attention. This model boasts 36 billion parameters but actively uses only 4 billion per token, achieving frontier-class results on agentic and reasoning benchmarks. It significantly outperforms open-weight dense and MoE models up to 15 times its size and is competitive with closed frontier models. The model supports a 512K context window, and IFM plans to release intermediate checkpoints, training data, and code for full transparency. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for MoE models in terms of parameter efficiency and context length, potentially influencing future model architectures.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and benchmark results. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]

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IFM releases K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B with 512K context and competitive frontier-class results

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 (HU) · IFM ·

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    IFM/K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B

    text-generation · 0 downloads · 72 likes

  3. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/edward-dev ·

    Has anyone already tried IFM's new K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B?

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