Summer 2026
AI Research Intern
Posted on 6/12/2026
Institute of Foundation Models
Researches and develops foundation models
Compensation Overview
$48.08 - $67.31/hr
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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- Currently pursuing or recently completed a Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- Collect, prepare and processing training and validation datasets.
- Assist in designing and tweaking model architectures.
- Implement testing frameworks to assess model performance.
- Analyze model outputs for accuracy and bias.
- Participate in the review and refinement of AI algorithms.
- Document findings and procedures for team collaboration.
IFM builds and studies foundation models—large AI models designed to learn broadly from diverse data and be used across many tasks. Its work centers on academic research to create open, fast, and practical models that address real-world societal needs, rather than narrow applications. The models are developed by a global team across Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley, with a strong emphasis on openness and collaboration to advance AI science and accessibility. Unlike typical private labs that lock models behind paywalls, IFM aims to provide publicly accessible, efficient models that can be used by researchers and developers to solve real problems. The overarching goal is to push the science of foundation models forward while ensuring their benefits reach society at large.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- IFM's dedicated teams in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley drive K2 and JAIS advancements.
- Active job openings for AI research interns and engineers signal rapid team expansion.
- PAN world model enables multi-level reasoning in simulations for real-world applications.
What critics are saying
- OpenAI's o1 surpasses K2 and JAIS by 25% on benchmarks, shifting users in 6-12 months.
- US export controls block NVIDIA H200 GPUs, delaying K2 releases by 9 months.
- Stanford CRFM's model with 10x data captures 70% academic citations in 6-12 months.
What makes Institute of Foundation Models unique
- IFM pioneers open-source K2 Think V2, UAE's sovereign 70B reasoning system released January 2026.
- IFM advances JAIS 2, world's leading Arabic LLM trained on largest Arabic-first dataset.
- IFM hosts models on Hugging Face under mbzuai-ifm for global open collaboration.
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