Launch of DeepSeek’s Harness marks its strategic pivot towards autonomous agentic AI
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is venturing into a new battleground beyond large language models, launching a developer preview of its long-anticipated Harness – a software framework that helps developers turn AI models into autonomous agents. The release on Thursday marks a strategic pivot as DeepSeek moves to build foundational digital scaffolding for AI agents – systems capable of using AI models to operate external software, run code, and complete complex jobs on their...
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Published: 14 August 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Jobs & economy · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 15 August 2026
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