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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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Farzam Ehsani Discusses Crypto Exchange Growth and Regulatory Challenges

Farzam Ehsani, CEO of VALR, discusses the growth of crypto exchanges, regulatory hurdles, and VALR's navigation of South Africa's crypto landscape.

by Lawrence Jengar
Jun 19, 2024

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South African Exchange VALR Raises $50M Series B, Embrace the Largest Funding Round in Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa-based crypto exchange VALR, has secured a $50 million (over 750 million Rand) Series B round led by Pantera Capital.

by Annie Li
Mar 01, 2022

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BitMEX Invests in South Africa’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange

In a bold financial move, the parent company of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange has decided to invest in a South Africa’s biggest Bitcoin exchange, VALR.

by Shine Li
Jul 24, 2020

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Farzam Ehsani Discusses Crypto Exchange Growth and Regulatory Challenges

South African Exchange VALR Raises $50M Series B, Embrace the Largest Funding Round in Africa

BitMEX Invests in South Africa’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange

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