Deepseek Optimizations

• We’ve optimized how prompts are delivered through the web UI to Deepseek based on guidance from Deepseek. API behavior remains unchanged unchanged. We will continue to make changes here over the coming days to further enhance this behavior.

API

• VCUs are now awarded immediately after a user stake’s their VVV. The previous implementation gave VVV stakers access to the Venice Explorer Tier until their VCUs were allocated during the next epoch. This new configuration allows for much faster access and a better new user experience.

• Function calling support was added to Llama 3B. See an example here.