China's DeepSeek AI Agent Surpasses 1.5 Million Daily Users
DeepSeek's AI agent application has surpassed 1.5 million daily users less than three months after its launch.
On Nov. 8 local time, DeepSeek said on X (formerly Twitter), a social networking service, that the daily active users (DAU) of its AI agent application, DeepSeek Harness, reached 1.54 million as of Nov. 4.
The DAU, which stood at about 271,000 shortly after the desktop version launched in late September, grew approximately 5.7-fold in just over a month. The figure was calculated based on users who connected to DeepSeek's own servers. An AI agent is software that autonomously performs various tasks on a user's behalf.
To keep pace with its growing user base, DeepSeek plans to build an official marketplace where developers can register plugins and users can search for them. The company is also planning a support program for plugin developers that will offer tokens, technical assistance and promotional opportunities. It did not disclose specific details of the plans.
As competition in the AI industry expands beyond model performance to ecosystem development and service integration, DeepSeek is also working to build a developer-centered AI agent ecosystem. The strategy appears aimed at competing with OpenAI and Anthropic by emphasizing not only model performance and cost but also the variety of applications powered by its AI technology.
As the number of users has surged, DeepSeek Harness's token consumption has also proved substantial. Each user was found to consume an average of about 60 million tokens per day, for a total of approximately 92 trillion tokens. Bloomberg noted that this shows how the spread of AI agents is rapidly increasing demand for computing resources.
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DeepSeek is developing Harness by implementing all its features in the form of plugins. Plugins are tools that add new features without changing existing software. There are currently about 35,000 plugins, and 60% of users were found to have created at least one plugin themselves.
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