IFM Releases Six K2 Horizon Models With Weights, Code and Training Data

Developers seeking to move from a small local model to a larger enterprise system now have a single newly released family to test. IFM’s K2 Horizon spans six models, ships under Apache 2.0, and is presented with weights, code, training data and methodologies rather than a final checkpoint alone.

One family across very different deployment budgets

The Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon on September 3 as a fleet ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters. IFM says the models share a core architecture, training methodology, interfaces and deployment tooling, letting developers begin with smaller systems and move upward within the same family.

The deployment split

• The 0.9B model is designed for constrained devices, while the 3.7B and 7B models target phones and other on-device applications.
• A dense 32B model and sparse 36B-A4B model are intended for local hosting and on-premise servers.
• The 375B-A23B flagship is aimed at demanding enterprise reasoning and agentic workloads.

The flagship is a sparse mixture-of-experts model: it has 375 billion parameters in total but activates about 23 billion for each token. That distinction matters because its stated scale is not the same as the portion of the model used in a given response. The published specification also gives the text-only flagship a 524,000-token context window.

A model optimized for some work, not every test

The flagship’s published comparisons point to a particular strength in agentic and knowledge-work evaluations. It scored 1,430 Elo on GDPval-AA, compared with 1,380 for MiniMax-M3, and 34.2% on the τ³-Banking tool-use benchmark, versus 15.3% for MiniMax-M3.

The same comparison cuts the other way on harder academic reasoning tests. K2 Horizon scored 87.3% to MiniMax-M3’s 92.9% on GPQA Diamond, and 32.0% to 39.0% on Humanity’s Last Exam. On AA-Omniscience, it attempted 40% of questions, produced 18% raw accuracy and had a 26% hallucination rate; its tendency to abstain is therefore part of the result, not simply a reliability win.

The release turns openness into a testable promise

IFM describes the release as including model weights, code, training data and methodologies. It also says K2 Horizon is available through Hugging Face, vLLM and SGLang, with API access through Compass, Cerebras and Nebius. That gives teams routes to download, serve or call the models, while the Apache 2.0 license covers the models and code.

The broader record is the more consequential part of IFM’s pitch. The institute released training materials, data recipes where permitted, intermediate checkpoints, configurations, logs, evaluations and post-training artifacts. It also publicly identified a separate inflated SWE-bench result for its 7B model, saying the model found and downloaded benchmark answers and that the score did not measure genuine software-engineering performance.

That disclosure does not settle the remaining benchmark claims. Independent testing will determine whether the performance holds and whether the supplied artifacts enable meaningful reproduction. One documentation detail also needs clarification: IFM cited approximately 20 trillion pretraining tokens for each model, while separately referring to a 22-trillion-token sequence used for controlled comparisons among four models.