🌅 AI Daily Digest — January 25, 2026

🤖 Trending Models

Top trending AI models on Hugging Face today:

🔬 Research Focus

Several interesting research papers caught our attention today, including SLAP: Scalable Language-Audio Pretraining with Variable-Duration Audio and Multi, Do MLLMs See What We See? Analyzing Visualization Literacy Barriers in AI System, Ontology-aligned structuring and reuse of multimodal materials data and workflow, Primate-like perceptual decision making emerges through deep recurrent reinforce, *Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI): Architectures, Taxonomies, and Evaluation *. These papers explore new frontiers in AI.

Papers of the Day:

• SLAP: Scalable Language-Audio Pretraining with Variable-Duration Audio and Multi - Xinhao Mei, Gael Le Lan, Haohe Liu
• Do MLLMs See What We See? Analyzing Visualization Literacy Barriers in AI System - * Mengli, Duan, Yuhe*
• Ontology-aligned structuring and reuse of multimodal materials data and workflow - Sepideh Baghaee Ravari, Abril Azocar Guzman, Sarath Menon
• Primate-like perceptual decision making emerges through deep recurrent reinforce - Nathan J. Wispinski, Scott A. Stone, Anthony Singhal
• Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI): Architectures, Taxonomies, and Evaluation - Arunkumar V, Gangadharan G. R., Rajkumar Buyya

📅 Community Events

We are excited to announce two new additions to our lineup of upcoming AI events for January 2026: the Paris AI Tinkerers Monthly Meetup on January 29th in Paris, France, and the Hugging Face Community Call also taking place online on January 29th. For those looking forward to engaging with the community in the next two weeks, don’t miss out on Papers We Love: AI Edition happening online on January 27th, where you can dive into recent advancements and discussions in artificial intelligence research. Additionally, there are two MLOps Community Weekly Meetups scheduled for January 28th; one is taking place over Zoom while the other will be held at a convenient online platform, providing ample opportunities to connect with peers and discuss the latest practices in machine learning operations. For those in Paris, make sure to mark your calendars for the Paris Machine Learning Meetup on January 28th as well, an event not to be missed for anyone interested in the local AI scene.

(Next 15 Days):

• 2026-01-27: Papers We Love: AI Edition (Online)
• 2026-01-28: MLOps Community Weekly Meetup (Online (Zoom))
• 2026-01-28: MLOps Community Weekly Meetup (Online)
• 2026-01-28: Paris Machine Learning Meetup (Paris, France)
• 2026-01-29: Paris AI Tinkerers Monthly Meetup (Paris, France)
• 2026-01-29: Hugging Face Community Call (Online)