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China's AI Chatbot 'Deepseek' Suffers Longest Outage Since Rapid Growth
China's AI Chatbot 'Deepseek' Faces Major Outage
On March 30, 'Deepseek', a widely used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in China, experienced a prolonged service disruption. This outage marks the longest since the rapid expansion of its flagship large language models, 'R1' and 'V3', last year. According to the operational status notification site, the outage began in the early hours of March 30, lasting 7 hours and 13 minutes, and was restored at 10:33 AM local time. The company did not disclose the cause, citing internal regulations.
Past Outages and Industry Expectations
In late January 2025, when Deepseek's usage was rapidly accelerating, its 'API service' for developers to integrate the chatbot with other applications experienced consecutive daily outages. However, for the website where general users can directly query the chatbot, no outage exceeding two hours had occurred until now. Meanwhile, the global AI industry is anticipating the announcement of Deepseek's next-generation models, but the company has not yet revealed a specific timeline.
*Source: Reuters (2026-03-31)*
