A quiet weekend for model releases. DeepSeek said its open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily users and is preparing a plugin marketplace, while Bloomberg reported that Apple's new CEO is pushing Siri to become agentic faster. In the US, AP raised questions about the independence of the federal AI evaluation center CAISSI, and Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang.
According to Bloomberg (Nov 8), DeepSeek's open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily active users as of Nov 4, up from about 271,000 at the end of September, and processes roughly 92 trillion tokens a day; users have built about 35,000 plugins. DeepSeek plans an official plugin marketplace with token grants for developers, a sign that Chinese open-source agents are building their own ecosystem.
Per Mark Gurman (Bloomberg, Nov 8), CEO John Ternus has urged Craig Federighi to accelerate Apple's AI roadmap rather than just fix Siri; Siri in iOS 27 still cannot run long agentic tasks in the background, and Siri engineering VP Mike Rockwell is reportedly considering leaving next year. It signals Apple wants to catch up in the on-device agent assistant race.
AP (Nov 8) reports that staff at NIST's CAISSI were asked to report informally to a White House office; the center has no permanent director, has stopped publishing model evaluations and runs on about $10 million a year. This raises concerns about who is independently testing frontier models while the US relies on voluntary commitments from AI companies.
On Nov 8, Nvidia's board announced an investigation led by independent directors after reports that Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy operation and his admission of an affair with an executive at chip company Megaspeed. The board said it has no reason to believe company secrets or national security were compromised, but the episode adds uncertainty for the LLM industry's key chip supplier amid the AI stock selloff.
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