Can DeepSeek challenge OpenAI, Anthropic in AI agents as Harness adoption takes off?

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DeepSeek says its Harness AI agent framework has reached 1.54 million daily active users less than three months after launch, with reported API usage of about 92 trillion tokens per day. The growth intensifies competition among Chinese and American AI companies in the AI agents market.

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 as of November 4, the Hangzhou-based start-up said. That is equivalent to about 1.1 billion tokens...