Launched in May 2025, MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) advances the science, scale, and social value of foundation models. From its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and research hubs in Silicon Valley and Paris, IFM brings together world-class talent across continents to build sovereign, open, and high-performing AI systems for the next era of intelligence.

Our portfolio includes K2, a sovereign and agentic open large language model family; Jais, the world's best open Arabic large language model for more than 400 million Arabic speakers; and PAN, a frontier world model for purposeful simulation.