DeepSeek Chatbot Hit by Major Service Disruption

DeepSeek Chatbot Hit by Major Service Disruption
DeepSeek, China's rapidly growing artificial intelligence chatbot platform, experienced a significant service outage lasting over seven hours, marking the longest disruption since its public launch. The outage affected more than 355 million registered users who rely on the platform for various tasks including content generation, coding assistance, and general information queries. The extended downtime raised questions about the platform's infrastructure resilience and capacity management as it continues experiencing explosive growth in user adoption. During the outage period, users attempting to access DeepSeek were unable to retrieve responses or utilize any of the platform's core features, forcing many to seek alternative AI services temporarily.