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Institute of Foundation Models launches K2 Horizon, largest open-source AI model fleet

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The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) has launched K2 Horizon, a collection of six open-source AI models. These models range in size from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters and are released under the Apache 2.0 license. IFM states this is the largest open-source model release in AI history, featuring innovations like MoVA sparsity attention and Uno diffusion decoding speedup. AI

IMPACT This release provides a significant set of open-source models, potentially accelerating research and development in the AI community.

RANK_REASON Release of open-source AI models from a research institute. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Institute of Foundation Models launches K2 Horizon, largest open-source AI model fleet

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    The Institute of Foundation Models has released K2 Horizon, a fleet of six open-source AI models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters under Apache 2.0 license.

    The Institute of Foundation Models has released K2 Horizon, a fleet of six open-source AI models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters under Apache 2.0 license. IFM claims it is the largest fully open-source model launch in AI history. The models include MoVA sparsity attention an…

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