On September 3, 2026, the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi did something none of the big Western labs have done: it released six AI models at once, from a 0.9-billion-parameter model small enough to run on a watch to a 375-billion-parameter flagship, and shipped the weights, code, training recipes, and methodology behind every one of them. The release is called K2 Horizon,...