DeepSeek reports partial outage of chat and API services on October 15, 2026
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DeepSeek's chat service and its DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash APIs suffered a partial outage starting 8:11 a.m.
Beijing time on October 15, 2026, according to the company's status page. DeepSeek says it has located the cause and a fix is underway.
On the same day, a newly created Bilibili account named "DeepSeekHarness" appeared. QbitAI (量子位) reports that the source contains no official link between the account and the outage.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 15, 2:04 AM ET
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- QbitAINewsDeepSeek services go down worldwide as a DeepSeek Harness account appears on Bilibili
AIDeepSeek's web chat and API suffered a partial outage starting 8:11 a.m. Beijing time on October 15, 2026, affecting the DeepSeek chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API, according to the company's status page. The company says the cause has been located and a fix is underway, while a newly created account named "DeepSeekHarness" appeared on Bilibili the same day, and the source reports no official link between the two.
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