DeepSeek experienced a partial outage affecting its web and API services beginning at 15:11 on November 7, with the chat interface displaying "server busy, please try again later" errors. The disruption impacted Chat Service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API services. The company's official status page confirmed the incident and stated it was investigating the root cause. DeepSeek later reported the outage had been resolved, with monitoring underway to verify service stability.