DeepSeek experiences a sudden service outage; the official team has identified the cause and is urgently working on a fix.

According to DeepSeek's official status page, the DeepSeek web service and API experienced partial outages starting at 08:11 on October 15, affecting three components: the DeepSeek V4 Pro API, the V4.1 Flash API, and the Chat service. The official status has been updated to "Identified," indicating that the root cause has been determined and fixes are being implemented. Services remain in a "Complete Outage" state, and no recovery time has been announced.