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DeepSeek is an AI company and a family of large language models based in Hangzhou, China. It was founded in 2023 and funded by High-Flyer, a well - known quantitative asset management giant. DeepSeek is dedicated to developing advanced large language models and related technologies. It has released several models, including DeepSeek LLM, DeepSeek Coder, DeepSeekMath, and DeepSeek - VL. The latest version, DeepSeek - V3, which was launched in December 2024, has 67.1 billion parameters and was trained on a dataset of 14.8 trillion tokens. It uses FP8 training and open - sources the native FP8 weights. Benchmark tests show that it outperforms Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5 while matching GPT - 4O and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In addition, DeepSeek - R1, which was officially released on January 20, 2025, performs on a par with OpenAI O1 in terms of mathematics, code, and natural language reasoning tasks. DeepSeek's models have a wide range of applications, such as chat and coding scenarios, multilingual automatic translation, image generation, and AI painting. With their high performance and low cost, DeepSeek's models have quickly gained popularity. For example, on February 2, 2025, the DeepSeek app climbed to the top of the download charts in 140 countries on the Apple App Store and also topped the Android Play Store in the United States

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Sub-Saharan Africa's Crypto Market Surges with Retail Transactions

Sub-Saharan Africa's crypto market experiences a 52% growth, driven by retail transactions, positioning it as the third fastest-growing region globally, according to Chainalysis.

by Darius Baruo
Sep 10, 2025

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Crypto Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa Rises, Study Shows

Many young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are taking the cryptocurrency route to build and preserve wealth despite low economic opportunities.

by Brian Njuguna
Sep 29, 2022

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Sub-Saharan Africa Dethrones Northern America as the Top Bitcoin Adoption Spot

Sub-Saharan Africa has been the top Bitcoin adoption spot for 181 consecutive weeks after edging out Northern America, as revealed by Arcane Research.

by Brian Njuguna
Aug 05, 2021

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Sub-Saharan Africa's Crypto Market Surges with Retail Transactions

Crypto Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa Rises, Study Shows

Sub-Saharan Africa Dethrones Northern America as the Top Bitcoin Adoption Spot

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