DeepSeek web/API services resume after 45-minute outage

A 45-minute partial outage is minor in isolation, but for an AI provider whose API underpins third-party applications, availability is part of the product. The incident underscores how dependence on a single model provider turns a brief server error into a downstream disruption for anyone building on that endpoint, and the company's status page disclosure offers a transparency benchmark. Whether such interruptions remain rare as usage scales is the open question worth tracking.