DeepSeek Goes Dark for 7+ Hours in Largest Outage Yet

DeepSeek's AI chatbot went down hard overnight in China, staying offline for more than seven hours in what marks the company's most significant service disruption since its 2025 debut.

The outage forced the AI company to push multiple updates to get things back on track. For a platform that's scaled to global usage remarkably fast, that kind of extended downtime is notable.

Seven-plus hours is a long time for any major consumer-facing AI service to stay dark, especially one that's been positioning itself as a serious player on the world stage. The incident raises questions about infrastructure resilience as DeepSeek continues to handle surging demand.

No word yet on what specifically triggered the failure or how many users were affected during the outage window.