Against Claude Cowork, DeepSeek opens its open-source Harness to developers

DeepSeek has launched an open-source developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, a plugin-based AI agent platform positioned as an alternative to Anthropic's Claude Cowork, facilitating easier AI agent deployment via a web interface.

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