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SMRTR Programming• May 24, 2026• Daily.dev

DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Claude Code. Beijing Wants the Whole Stack

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DeepSeek is building a native agentic coding tool called 'Code Harness' to compete directly with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. With DeepSeek V4 already running inside Claude Code, the lab now wants to own the full stack—model plus interface. At $0.14 per million tokens, V4 Flash is up to 100x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7, giving DeepSeek a massive structural cost advantage from day one.

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