{"id":67497,"date":"2026-03-30T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/chinas-deepseek-ai-chatbot-faces-major-outage"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:22:57","slug":"chinas-deepseek-ai-chatbot-faces-major-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/chinas-deepseek-ai-chatbot-faces-major-outage","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek AI Chatbot Faces Major Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong> <\/span>China&#8217;s popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered on Monday its longest outage since \u200bthe viral rise of its flagship R1 \u200cand V3 models early last year.<\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek&#8217;s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a &#8220;major outage&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s status website.<\/p>\n<p>The global AI industry is \u2060eagerly \u200bawaiting the release of DeepSeek&#8217;s next-generation \u200bmodel, but the company has given no indication of a \u200btimeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Lesotho<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. China&#8217;s popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered on Monday its longest outage since \u200bthe viral rise of its flagship R1 \u200cand V3 models early last year. DeepSeek&#8217;s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a &#8220;major outage&#8221; lasting 7 \u200bhours and 13 minutes, from the early \u200bhours of Monday morning until 10:33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-67497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s DeepSeek AI Chatbot Faces Major Outage - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Lesotho. 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