Early in the morning, did DeepSeek actually crash??
Go and check the official status page quickly. Wow, it’s not just my problem.
DeepSeek official has posted a red error notification:
The DeepSeek web page and API are currently partially down. The cause of the failure has been identified, and repairs are being carried out.
The services affected currently include the DeepSeek conversation service, the DeepSeek V4 Pro API, and the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API.
What happened??
Conversations and APIs are on strike, netizens: Is a new model coming?
According to the accident records published by DeepSeek, the malfunction occurred earliest at 8:11 am on October 15, Beijing time.
The official initially stated that the team is investigating the issue and identifying its cause.
Then, the accident status was further updated to “located,” and it entered the repair phase.
As of the latest official update, the outage has lasted approximately 1 hour.
According to user feedback, the situations people encountered are not all the same:
Someone hasn’t received a reply after sending a message, some people are stuck on the loading interface, and others are directly hit by messages like “Server is busy” or “Too many messages, please try again later”.
The Overseas Service Monitoring Account Status Is DOWN also sent a prompt quickly, stating that DeepSeek is experiencing abnormalities, and asked if other users were affected.
The third-party fault monitoring platform StatusGator shows that 86 related failures have been reported in the past 24 hours (and is still increasing).
Users from Luxembourg reported that the server did not respond, while Polish users directly said “no reply”. The users in New York gave a even more concise review:
Too slow!
It can only be said that halfway through work, the AI stopped working first.
What’s even more interesting is that whenever the DeepSeek server suddenly acts up, the comment section automatically enters a familiar process.
First, confirm whether there is a problem with your network.
Confirm again whether DeepSeek really collapsed.
Finally start daringly serving champagne:
Is it possible a new model is coming?？
A few days ago, when DeepSeek had a brief anomaly, overseas netizens already asked directly on Reddit:
“Is DeepSeek off again?”
In the comment section, someone said they couldn’t use it either, someone was so worried that they literally said “I can’t lose the chat history,” and others immediately linked the server failure to the new model:
DeepSeek-V5?
Although every service anomaly is assumed by netizens to be “pre-release maintenance,” it feels a bit like “when it breaks, open champagne.”
But this time, the situation is indeed a little delicate.
Because right when the DeepSeek server had an issue, an account named “DeepSeekHarness” also quietly appeared on Bilibili.
Great.
The server started exploding at first, and the mysterious account appeared later.
It’s hard not to keep thinking further:
Is DeepSeek’s move really just due to a server crash?
DeepSeek Harness came to Bilibili to start a channel
When clicking on the homepage, this account is currently named “DeepSeekHarness”.
According to the public page, the account has just been set up, and not much useful information has been released yet.
(Nothing, but the attention has already reached tens of thousands)
DeepSeek Harness is an open-source Agent running platform that DeepSeek has released.
In simple terms, it’s like equipping a large model with an “work exoskeleton”.
The model is responsible for thinking, while Harness is in charge of making it call tools, edit files, execute commands, process code, and even break down complex tasks into multiple sub-Agents to complete.
DeepSeek's official core positioning is Everything is a plugin——everything is a plugin.
So, this time coming to Bilibili to start a channel is more like DeepSeek preparing to officially promote this Agent product for domestic users.
As for the sudden server failure, is it preparing for the update of Harness or the release of a new model?
No official evidence exists at present.
But it’s impossible to deny that the time points are really coincidental.
On one side, web pages and APIs suddenly went on strike collectively, while on the other side, the Harness account quietly set up the Bilibili homepage.
It can only be said that the new model has not been seen yet, but the stage has been set up first.
DeepSeek, you'd better really have something new.
Reference links:
[1]
https://x.com/statusisdown/status/2110530242875957532?s=20
[2]
https://space.bilibili.com/3747571004608077
[3]
https://status.deepseek.com