DeepSeek announces ‘super agent’ capable of multiple tasks simultaneously

“The number of missions that AI can perform is increasing… Human attention is the bottleneck.”

(Shanghai = Yonhap News) Correspondent Cha Byeong-seop = Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Deepseek announced a new architecture called 'Super Agent' that mobilizes AI agents to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

According to the Global Times and Yonhap News Agency on the 1st (local time), Deepseek disclosed this the previous day, saying that super agents are not limited to one chat window and can continuously perform multiple tasks simultaneously and proactively respond to environmental changes.

Deepseek pointed out that although the number of tasks that AI can perform is increasing, the attention span of humans in charge of management tasks has not increased accordingly, becoming a 'bottleneck' in productivity. The explanation is that one person can follow only 3 to 5 conversations at the same time.

The purpose of developing a super agent is to have the system take over conversation management and context synchronization instead of people, so that people are responsible for goal setting and inspection, and AI is responsible for coordination and execution.

A super agent consists of a 'coordinator' (router) and an 'executor' (worker) who act like a virtual team. The router receives information on the platform, such as chat and email, and distributes tasks, and workers perform individual tasks such as code review and feature development.

Accordingly, the user deals with a single AI agent, but in reality, multiple agents work simultaneously.

In addition, Deepseek explains that the super agent has initiative and can monitor conversations in a group chat room and proactively recognize problems raised without any instructions and suggest solutions.

However, DeepSeek added that this did not present a new theory and merely applied ideas from existing computing systems to the agent architecture.