DeepSeek’s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a “major outage” lasting 7 ?hours and 13 minutes, from the early ?hours of Monday morning until 10:33 a.m. ?local time (0233 GMT), when the incident was ?marked as resolved.
As per company protocol, no reason ?was given for the outage. Such incidents can be caused by a wide range of issues, from malfunctioning ?servers to bugs stemming from an update ?to the AI chatbot.
DeepSeek data shows that its API ?service, ?a function mostly used by developers to integrate the chatbot into custom applications, saw consecutive day-long outages in late January 2025, at the ?height of ?its viral ?moment.
But its webpage, where ordinary users can ask the chatbot questions ?directly, had not experienced a major outage ?longer ?than two hours until Monday, according to the startup’s status website.
The global AI industry is ?eagerly ?awaiting the release of DeepSeek’s next-generation model, but the company has given no indication of a ?timeline.