AI Daily Brief — 24 January 2026

A quiet Saturday. The week’s shaping launches — Baidu ERNIE 5.0 on Wednesday (2.4T params, ultra-sparse MoE, omni-modal, #1 Chinese / #8 global on LMArena) and Qwen 3 Max Thinking on Friday — keep trending in weekend digests.

Quiet corners

No first-party model shipping from frontier labs. Industry attention turns to next week’s expected Microsoft Maia 200 reveal and the NVIDIA × CoreWeave follow-on round.

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 24 January 2026.