# High-Flyer Quant

The Price of Popularity: DeepSeek’s Prolonged Outage Signals Infrastructure Growing Pains in China’s AI Sector

China's DeepSeek AI platform experienced a major, multi-hour outage starting March 29, 2026, leaving both its app and website non-functional. The failure highlights the significant infrastructure and scaling challenges facing independent AI labs as they struggle to keep pace with explosive user demand.