Overview
- DeepSeek’s chatbot, which went dark Monday for 7 hours 13 minutes, returned at 10:33 a.m. local time according to the company status page.
- Users first saw faults Sunday evening, with DeepSeek noting an issue at 9:35 p.m., briefly declaring it fixed, then resolving recurring performance problems the next morning.
- The company gave no technical cause and did not issue an immediate comment, in line with its practice of not detailing outage origins.
- Monday’s disruption was the longest for the public chat page since DeepSeek’s viral rise in early 2025, which had not seen a single outage over two hours, and the service has otherwise run near 99% uptime.
- Attention now turns to a widely reported next model that media say will be multimodal and tested with local supplier Huawei, a shift that signals reliance on Chinese hardware over U.S. chipmakers.