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Bloomberg: DeepSeek's AI Agent Platform Hits 1.54 Million Daily Users in Under Three Months
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI disruptor, released striking adoption numbers for its AI agent infrastructure as it continues to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI with an entire swath of applications built around open-source AI technologies
Context
Why it matters
It is one of the first hard adoption numbers for an open source agent platform competing with Anthropic and OpenAI.
Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek released adoption numbers for its AI agent infrastructure, with its headline putting the platform at 1.54 million daily users. Andrew Curran and Rohan Paul relayed the figure as reached in under three months. The scan found no DeepSeek post on X with the numbers.
What to expect next
Watch for DeepSeek's own figures and how they compare with usage of Claude Code and Codex.