China\u2019s popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered its longest outage on Monday since \u200bthe viral rise of its flagship R1 \u200cand V3 models early last year. DeepSeek\u2019s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a \u201cmajor outage\u201d lasting 7 \u200bhours and 13 minutes, from the early \u200bhours of Monday morning until 10:33 a.m. \u2060local time (0233 GMT), when the incident was \u200bmarked as resolved. As per company protocol, no reason \u200bwas given for the outage. Such incidents can be caused by a wide range of issues, from malfunctioning \u200bservers to bugs stemming from an update \u200bto the AI chatbot. DeepSeek data shows that its API \u200cservice, \u2060a function mostly used by developers to integrate the chatbot into custom applications, saw consecutive day-long outages in late January 2025, at the \u200bheight of \u200bits viral \u2060moment. But its webpage, where ordinary users can ask the chatbot questions \u200bdirectly, had not experienced a major outage \u200blonger \u2060than two hours until Monday, according to the startup\u2019s status website. The global AI industry is \u2060eagerly \u200bawaiting the release of DeepSeek\u2019s next-generation model, but the company has given no indication of a \u200btimeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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