DeepSeek fixes partial outage affecting chat and API services

DeepSeek suffered a partial outage on October 15 that hit its web chat and API services, with users seeing messages that the server was temporarily unavailable. The incident was logged at 8:11 a.m. Beijing time; by 12:49 p.m. the company said it had implemented a fix and moved the incident to monitoring. Chat and APIs for DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash were affected.

• Outage hit DeepSeek web chat and API services on October 15
• Incident logged at 8:11 a.m. Beijing time
• Fix implemented by 12:49 p.m., incident under monitoring
• DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash chat and APIs affected