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AI Daily Brief — 20 January 2026

One year after the “DeepSeek moment,” Hugging Face publishes a retrospective. DeepSeek R1 is now the most-liked model in HF history. Chinese labs hold roughly 15% of global open-model share (up from ~1% in late 2024); Qwen passes 700M cumulative downloads.

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  • HF — “One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment.” R1 most-liked all-time. China share ~15% (vs ~1% late 2024). Qwen passes 700M downloads. via Hugging Face
  • NVIDIA — Cosmos Predict 2.5, Reason 2, Isaac GR00T N1.6 on HF. The CES physical-AI drops keep rolling onto Hugging Face for community access. via NVIDIA

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 20 January 2026.