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DeepSeek agent app Harness hits 1.54M DAUs, consumes ~92T tokens daily

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DeepSeek reported that its open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily active users (DAUs) on November 4, less than three months after its launch. The app consumes approximately 92 trillion tokens per day, translating to about 60 million tokens per user daily, highlighting significant adoption and usage intensity.

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    DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch, and uses ~92T tokens a day, or ~60M per user (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

    Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch, and uses ~92T tokens a day, or ~60M per user — DeepSeek, the Chinese AI disruptor, released striking adoption numbers for its AI agent infrastructure as it continues …

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