{
  "id": 19113210,
  "title": "Can DeepSeek challenge OpenAI, Anthropic in AI agents as Harness adoption takes off?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/can-deepseek-challenge-openai-anthropic-in-ai-agents-as-harness-19113210",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-09T07:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373757/can-deepseek-challenge-openai-anthropic-ai-agents-harness-adoption-takes"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "DeepSeek's Harness artificial intelligence agent framework has rapidly gained traction, boasting 1.54 million daily active users in under three months since its August 13 launch, according to the Chinese AI company. Harness, a software infrastructure that transforms large language models into autonomous AI agents, has seen daily users consume approximately 92 trillion tokens as of November 4, or roughly 1.1 billion tokens per second.\n\nUS counterparts OpenAI and Anthropic, having established early lead in harness development, have capitalized on this to power their top-tier coding products, Codex and Claude Code. Harness debuted with a web application in September, enabling developers to deploy AI agents capable of executing code and interacting with external software for various tasks.\n\nAs of now, Harness's developer community has grown to around 35,000 third-party plug-ins, with approximately 60% of active users having incorporated at least one plug-in into their experience. Company representative Cui Tianyi likened Harness to an operating system akin to a smartphone, offering core functionalities while providing a platform for third-party integration akin to smartphone app customization.\n\nExamples of developed plug-ins include tools for academic paper analysis and development tracking. DeepSeek plans to establish a marketplace for developers to publish and users to discover these plug-ins, offering token grants and technical support to encourage growth. The company is increasingly focusing on monetizing its foundation models, recently establishing its first product division led by Cui.",
  "summary": "DeepSeek’s Harness artificial intelligence agent framework has reached 1.54 million daily active users less than three months after launch, the Chinese AI champion said on Sunday, marking rapid growth in a new battleground between leading Chinese and American AI giants. Users of Harness through the company’s official application programming interface were consuming around 92 trillion tokens a day…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch, and uses ~92T tokens a day, or ~60M per user (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/deepseek-says-its-open-source-agent-app-harness-hit-1-54m-daus-on",
        "published": "2026-11-08T20:10:00.000Z"
      }
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}