We introduce A.X K2, a 688B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model trained from scratch as a high-performance foundation for agentic applications. A.X K2 is trained on approximately 8.5T tokens in total—fewer than its predecessor, A.X K1—by prioritizing a smaller but higher-quality data mixture; it nonetheless improves substantially over A.X K1 across the board—by over 30 percentage points on some benchmarks—reflecting substantial gains in token efficiency from an improved multi-stage data-processing pipeline. To support long contexts efficiently, we introduce Sparse Gated Attention (SGA), which combines sparse attention with gated attention, and adopt Gated Norm to stabilize large-scale training. To strengthen agentic capability, we substantially expand agentic and software-engineering data and extend the usable context length, enabling multi-step tool use and long-horizon task execution. A.X K2 further supports explicitly controllable reasoning through a simple yet effective Think-Fusion training recipe, enabling user-controlled switching between thinking and non-thinking modes within a single unified model. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that A.X K2 performs competitively against strong open-weight baselines, matching or exceeding them on math and Korean-language benchmarks.
FLOPs1.7999999999999996e+24
Notes: ~1.8e24 FLOP reported by SK Telecom via email (July 2026). Cross-check by operation counting: 6 * 33e9 active parameters * 8.5e12 tokens = 1.68e24 FLOP, consistent with the reported figure. Per the technical report, ~8.2T of the 8.5T tokens were used in pre-training (512 B200 GPUs, ~70 days), with the remainder in post-training.
Training Code AccessibilityReleased under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face.
Size Notes: Approximately 8.5T tokens in total: ~8.2T in pre-training (Stage 1 general knowledge: 6.4T; Stage 2 high-quality reasoning: 1.4T; long-context stages 3A-3C: ~0.36T) and the remainder in post-training.
Parameters688000000000
Notes: MoE architecture, total parameters 688B, active parameters 33B (61 layers: 1 dense + 60 MoE; 256 routed experts + 1 shared, 8 active per token)