DeepSeek Harness Reaches 1.54 Million Daily Users as It Challenges US-Led AI Agent Market

At a glance

DeepSeek's AI agent platform, DeepSeek Harness, became a service used by 1.54 million people a day just three months after its launch. External developers have built about 35,000 plugins for it. Based on this growth, DeepSeek plans to launch an official marketplace and expand support for developers.

Key points

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   As of November 4, daily active users reached 1.54 million, up more than fivefold from about 271,000 at the end of September, in just over a month.

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   Plugins (add-on programs that extend functionality) grew to 35,000, and about 60% of all users have created or installed at least one.

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   DeepSeek is preparing an official marketplace where developers can register plugins and users can easily find them.

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   The platform aims to provide core features itself while filling industry-specific tasks with plugins from outside developers.

Why it matters

Chinese AI has been seen as catching up on model performance but lagging in coding agents. This user growth is an attempt to close that gap, so it is worth watching.

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