WELCOME TO SENSEMAKING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & LEARNING (SAIL) A Comprehensive Newsletter on all things learning. by George Siemens University of SA The biggest news of the past week, possibly year, has been DeepSeek - a Chinese developed LLM that is performing at o1 levels for reasoning. It’s licensed under an MIT license, enabling users to “Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software”. This is a big deal. It’s the first advancement that I’ve seen distressing AI insiders who see a sudden collapsing of the proverbial moat. It’s good news for anyone on the using, not developing foundation models, end of LLMs. You can run...