DeepSeek outage fuels speculation of a new "Whale" model launch on Thursday
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15
Blogger teortaxesTex, reacting to DeepSeek's outage (the quoted post cries "V4 Pro is down"), speculates Thursday is a likely launch day for a new "Whale" (DeepSeek's oversized-model naming convention).
He notes it's 9:11 AM in China and DeepSeek typically ships models at 5-7 PM. Still, he's skeptical: the bigger model may have hit issues again, or the team may want to push its RL further. The launch-time prediction — and the outage-to-release link — remains unconfirmed.
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