DeepSeek’s AI agent platform hits 1.54 million daily users

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI disruptor, has announced that its open-source agent application, DeepSeek Harness, has reached 1.54 million daily active users. This significant milestone was recorded just three months after the app's debut on August 13. Prior to the release of a desktop version of the app, the number of daily users stood at around 271,000 at the end of September.

DeepSeek Harness is designed as a developer-driven agent ecosystem, challenging industry giants OpenAI and Anthropic. The platform is built on an "everything is a plugin" architecture, with about 35,000 plugins available and 60% of users creating at least one. As AI agents increasingly handle complex multi-step tasks, the demand for computational power has surged.

Harness is currently consuming approximately 92 trillion tokens daily, translating to around 60 million tokens per active user. The startup plans to launch an official marketplace for developers to publish plugins and users to discover them, with additional support for plugin creators including token grants, technical assistance, and promotional opportunities.