China’s DeepSeek suffered the biggest outage in its history as the popular AI chatbot went down for more than seven hours overnight in China. As per a Bloomberg report, the outage forced DeepSeek to deploy multiple updates to rectify the situation.
When did the DeepSeek outage happen?
According to outage tracking platform Downdetector, users first began reporting faults with the platform on Sunday evening. The startup’s official status page acknowledged an initial issue at 9:35 p.m., eventually marking the incident as resolved about two hours later.

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