According to a report by Deccan Chronicle, DeepSeek said on X that its open-source agent application DeepSeek Harness had reached 1.54 million daily active users by November 4. The application launched on August 13. At the end of September the figure was about 271,000, shortly after a desktop version was released. The figures are based on connections to DeepSeek's own servers.
What Harness is
According to the report, agents carry out multi-step tasks with little human supervision, such as writing and modifying code, analyzing files, or researching on the web. DeepSeek describes Harness as an "everything is a plugin" architecture. The report says the company counts about 35,000 plugins and that 60 percent of users have built at least one; the company says the quality of plugins varies.
Compute demand
The report cites consumption of about 92 trillion tokens per day, or roughly 60 million tokens per active user. According to the report, this suggests agents drive demand for computing power far more strongly than conventional chatbots.
Context
The report adds that DeepSeek plans an official plugin marketplace and a support program for developers including token grants and technical assistance; no further details have been published. For German companies, the question is whether open agent ecosystems of this kind can become an alternative to proprietary offerings. These figures alone do not show whether that will happen, and they are the provider's own statements.
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