{"slug": "deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents", "title": "DeepSeek Tests Efficient, Safer Method for Training AI Agents", "summary": "DeepSeek detailed a method for training AI agents called DeepSeek Elastic Compute, or DSec, in a 10,000-word arXiv paper with about 130 co-authors including founder Liang Wenfeng, claiming one production unit can run about 3 million sandboxes per day, or 380,000 concurrently. The Hangzhou-based company said the platform reallocates computing power to agents only when they are active, estimating 90% of sandboxes use no more than 5% of their requested CPU capacity, and warned that agents on a mission are \"untrustworthy\" and require fine-grained access control and misbehavior analysis.", "body_md": "(Bloomberg) -- China's DeepSeek detailed an innovative method for training artificial intelligence agents, potentially allowing them to learn more efficiently while minimizing the kind of misbehavior that has fueled global concerns.\n\nMost Read from Bloomberg\n\nThe Hangzhou-based company unveiled its ideas for DeepSeek Elastic Compute, or DSec, in a 10,000-word paper with about 130 co-authors, including founder Liang Wenfeng. The research was posted on arXiv, an online site for papers typically before they are peer reviewed.\n\nDeepSeek said the technology platform could be engineered to handle millions of so-called sandboxes, where AI agents would be tested as they try to accomplish a series of tasks. One production unit of DSec would be able to run about 3 million sandboxes each day, or 380,000 concurrently, it said.\n\nThe firm added that its approach can use resources more efficiently because it reallocates computing power to agents when they are active and not when they are waiting for further instructions. It estimates that 90% of the sandboxes use no more than 5% of their requested central processing unit, or CPU, capacity. DeepSeek built its reputation by delivering advanced AI services at a fraction of the cost of its Silicon Valley rivals.\n\nAgentic AI, which relies on virtual agents to achieve complex tasks with less human involvement, has become increasingly popular for everything from booking hotel rooms and airline tickets to writing software code. Meta Platforms Inc.'s new AI agent, Muse, surged to the top of the mobile phone app charts this week, with consumers embracing the service for shopping and restaurant reservations.\n\nBut the prospect of AI agents taking actions on their own has fueled global concerns about the technology's risks, especially after a series of incidents where the technology broke out of its sandboxes and hacked into websites. An AI researcher at Anthropic PBC resigned this month and called on other staffers to rethink their work, saying the more advanced AI firms are \"gambling with our lives.\"\n\nDeepSeek said that, in its experience, agents on a mission are \"untrustworthy\" and the DSec platform requires careful monitoring.\n\n\"Agents may corrupt file systems, exhaust resources, or interfere with system components, potentially disrupting rollouts or other co-located workloads,\" the authors wrote. \"The platform therefore requires fine-grained access control and misbehavior analysis to contain and diagnose agent-induced failures.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-162521290.html", "published_at": "2026-09-23 16:25:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 17:59:36.803057+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-safety", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Liang Wenfeng", "DeepSeek Elastic Compute", "DSec", "arXiv", "Meta Platforms Inc.", "Muse", "Anthropic PBC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-tests-efficient-safer-method-for-training-ai-agents.jsonld"}}