DeepSeek Suffers Nearly 5-Hour Outage as China’s AI Boom Fuels Chip Shortage

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    "title": "DeepSeek Suffers Nearly 5-Hour Outage as China’s AI Boom Fuels Chip Shortage - bloomingbit",
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    "excerpt": "Summary Forecast Trend Report by Period China’s artificial intelligence industry is growing rapidly, but the computing infrastructure needed to support it is failing to keep up with demand. Operational strains are also surfacing, with DeepSeek, one of the country’s leading AI companies, suffering a service outage that lasted nearly five hours. China’s government is accelerating its push for semiconductor self-sufficiency, but domestic supplies of AI chips remain far below demand. Chinese technology companies are buying large volumes of Nvidia’s gaming graphics processing units, or GPUs, to secure scarce computing capacity. As the race to develop AI models expands into a scramble for data centers and semiconductors, computing infrastructure is emerging as a key factor that will determine how fast China’s AI industry can grow. According to the South China Morning Post and Chinese media reports on Oct. 16, DeepSeek’s chatbot and application programming interface, or API, services were disrupted for 4 hours and 50 minutes the previous morning. APIs for its V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash models were also suspended. Users around the world received error messages saying the server was temporarily unavailable. DeepSeek said it would refund all API charges incurred from Oct. 8 through Oct. 14 in the form of service credits. The latest disruption was not DeepSeek’s first major outage. Its...",
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