China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports , citing anonymous sources.

Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza , as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested.

Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was a "first step toward the agent era," according to an X post by the company. Like any AI tool, a future DeepSeek agent's usefulness will be contingent on its availability and price. DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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