DeepSeek’s AI agent platform hits 1.54 million daily users
The startup is staking claim to the industry’s next frontier of agentic infrastructure
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, announced that its AI agent platform, Harness, has reached an impressive 1.54 million daily active users. Launched on August 13, Harness is an open-source agent application that enables AI to act autonomously on a user's behalf, completing multi-step tasks such as writing code, analyzing files, and conducting research.
The platform is built on DeepSeek's low-cost reasoning model, R1, which made waves in Silicon Valley in 2025. In addition to its user base, Harness is also experiencing significant computational demand, consuming approximately 92 trillion tokens daily. This is a stark contrast to the processing power required by chatbots, as AI agents run for extended periods, interacting with various tools and the web.
DeepSeek plans to launch an official marketplace for developers to publish plug-ins and for users to discover them. The startup also intends to provide support, including token grants, technical assistance, and promotional opportunities, for plug-in creators. This open, developer-driven agent ecosystem aims to challenge industry giants OpenAI and Anthropic by offering a breadth of applications built around its AI technology, rather than solely focusing on model performance and cost.
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