DeepSeek developing AI agent requiring less human input: Report  

The proposal comes amid intense competition among AI developers, including US companies Anthropic and OpenAI, the SCMP said.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has revealed a design to increase the autonomy of AI coding assistants so they can perform multiple tasks with less human intervention.

The aim is to reduce human input in coordinating and monitoring multiple AI agents, according to a paper published by the company’s DeepSeek Harness team and reported by Singapore’s South China Morning Post on Sunday.

Managing multiple agents demands human attention, the team said, noting that “single-task limits depend on model capabilities, while multitask limits depend on human attention.”

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