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DeepSeek Reports 1,540,000 Daily Harness API Users

lite News Desk 1 min read

DeepSeek Harness recorded 1.54 million daily active users on November 4, according to figures the company announced on November 8, 2026. The total was limited to people using the application through DeepSeek’s official API.

Harness’s first release was on August 13, 2026, with a desktop version introduced toward September’s end, according to The Business Times. The publication also put daily Harness usage at approximately 271,000 in late September, but did not identify the measurement window behind that earlier count.

In its description of AI agents, The Business Times outlined software capable of carrying out tasks involving multiple steps while requiring limited human supervision. Those activities include working with code, examining files, conducting research and using tools. That description concerns AI agents as a category, rather than documented performance by Harness.

* This article is based on publicly available information at the time of writing.

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