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AI Daily Brief — 22 January 2026
The biggest Chinese launch since DeepSeek R1. Baidu ships ERNIE 5.0 — an omni-modal foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters using ultra-sparse MoE (less than 3% of parameters active per inference), processing text, image, audio and video. On the LMArena leaderboard, ERNIE-5.0-0110 ranks #1 among Chinese models and #8 globally in text — beating OpenAI’s GPT-5.1-High and Google’s Gemini-2.5-Pro. Baidu also discloses that ERNIE Bot has passed 200M monthly active users. Baidu stock climbs ~10%.
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- Baidu — ERNIE 5.0. 2.4T total params, ultra-sparse MoE (<3% active), omni-modal across text / image / audio / video. via SCMP
- LMArena ranking — #1 Chinese, #8 global on text. Beats GPT-5.1-High and Gemini-2.5-Pro on text. via The Decoder
- ERNIE Bot — 200M MAU; Baidu stock +~10%. Access via Ernie APP, Ernie Bot website and Baidu Qianfan Platform for enterprises. via Yahoo Finance
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 22 January 2026.