DeepSeek's rare daytime outage reveals it has become China's digital infrastructure
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-15
DeepSeek suffered a rare, prolonged daytime outage that revealed just how deeply it is embedded in China's digital infrastructure: large numbers of people rely on it at work, and many platforms simply route requests to its official API.
The knock-on effects were immediate — third-party apps like workbuddy saw model capacity jam across the board, exposing how much traffic DeepSeek silently absorbs in normal times. The incident is a de facto measure of DeepSeek's penetration in the Chinese AI app ecosystem.
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