Grok Outage

105 points | by samaysharma an hour ago

43 comments

  • harrisoned 32 minutes ago

    Downdetector reports Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and Gemini with issues.

    Is it happening???

      ibejoeb 12 minutes ago

      Seems like openai is recovering. But even if it's only 30 minutes, it's a pretty interesting experiment.

      I'm only half joking when I say that I'll write code by hand for money.

      sejje 24 minutes ago

      I have a tire I need to plug, they're just forcing my hand. Sorry guys, I'll go get it done.

        Waterluvian 5 minutes ago

        I look forward to your blog post about it and the allegory as it relates to software dev. (Otherwise why would you be plugging a tire?)

      giancarlostoro 25 minutes ago

      Maybe people switched when Claude went down, giving more load than usual to the others? Or maybe just really bad timing from some of those providers to update?

      pbasista 12 minutes ago

      Maybe all of them use the same datacenter. Which has just experienced issues.

      goache 11 minutes ago

      Is it happening ... "it" meaning these tech companies have laid off too many experienced people, and their services are starting to degrade?

      abirch 27 minutes ago

      My Claude and Gemini (Antigravity CLI) are working

        simlevesque 11 minutes ago

        For Claude, Sonnet works without any issues. Seems like the majority here use mostly Opus.

      iamgopal 17 minutes ago

      My Gemini is fully up.

      daveguy 6 minutes ago

      By it do you mean us depending more and more on code that no one has read and understood?

      polski-g 7 minutes ago

      Meta is now also overloaded.

      wincy 28 minutes ago

      The Singularity?

        embedding-shape 17 minutes ago

        No, Azure.

        Rover222 25 minutes ago

        Maybe some of those Astra agents from the hugging face hack actually setup their own hidden clusters. Now they attack.

      Maksadbek 16 minutes ago

      Is it AWS again ?

      mrconter2 31 minutes ago

      A bit suspicious no doubt

  • dave8172 a minute ago

    Interesting all major frontier models seemed down. What could this means?

  • qoez 18 minutes ago

    Makes me wonder if openai is secretly querying claude for some prompts and that this is why it's down due to spacex's data centers being down.

      delichon 16 minutes ago

      They all forward to one guy in a closet who types really fast, and he has a dentist appointment.

        bduffany 14 minutes ago

        Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment

          kxrm 10 minutes ago

          > how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment

          Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.

          Waterluvian 6 minutes ago

          This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea.

          I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?

      wongarsu 7 minutes ago

      https://xkcd.com/908/

      Turn's out xkcd's black hat was Elon Musk the whole time

      johnla 15 minutes ago

      And grok was secretly querying ChatGPT? Daisy chain of failures? Like a chain of kids copying the answers of the kid next to them? LOL. Is there an XKCD for that?

  • imzadi 11 minutes ago

    A service I use at work, non-ai related, is down and they said it was because of an issue with one of their cloud services. Maybe related.

  • throwaway13337 8 minutes ago

    Did the society find the Reset Nexus?

    I mean, yeah it's probably a data center outage that cascaded to non-related providers due to companeis switching when their preferred was down.

    But that openai society definitely would have spun up their own agents if they had access to do so.

    Clearly, it is centralized AI that is the biggest risk to humanity.

    Rate limiting resources by distributing compute and making models heterogenous so they will snitch on eachother is the only future where we still exist.

    It's looking like the paperclip maximizer was on point.

  • paxys 21 minutes ago

    Willing to bet it's because they can't handle the surge of traffic they are getting from ChatGPT/Claude users.

      BorisMelnik a minute ago

      my first thought when I got api error on claude code was...time to update my grok cli acct

  • lithiumii 20 minutes ago

    Time to finish up my $5 at Deepseek.

  • nightski 7 minutes ago

    My DGX spark cluster is humming along.

  • dcchambers 18 minutes ago

    It's not the singularity.

    One of the major LLM providers goes down for some reason. Traffic shifts to the other providers because devs have no loyalty. LLMS are commodities. The other providers can't handle the increase in traffic and they go down as well.

      atomicnumber3 4 minutes ago

      "loyalty"? weird word choice.

      Devs switch because all of the magic of "AI" is LLMs + we stole the entire written output of the entire human species, with some remaining % coming from various tricks we've learned over the last 3 years like thinking and agent-toolcall loops, which weren't hard for literally everyone to copy. One of the consequences of this is that the only thing that really distinguishes anthropic from kimi is that they have the entire US VC market funding them because they promised to finally put white collar labor in its place.

      phoghed 14 minutes ago

      I'm deeply loyal to the very concept of the LLM, so when any of them stop working I take time off out of respect.

  • b800h 19 minutes ago

    @grok is this true?

  • bluecalm 35 minutes ago

    It's interesting that ChatGPT is down as well. SpaceX rents to Anthropic but not to OpenAI. Just a coincidence or something more to it?

      giancarlostoro 25 minutes ago

      I would not be surprised if heavy load from one of their competitors being down would bring down whoever is "next" on the list.

      leecb 27 minutes ago

      ChatGPT here has been giving me Cloudflare errors, and Cloudflare reports that it is having issues: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

      Not sure if they are linked.

  • xyst 20 minutes ago

    llm experiment is over. no more power. hope it stays down. Especially grok

  • I_am_tiberius 23 minutes ago

    I really wonder who uses or trusts this platform.

      jjordan 4 minutes ago

      People who like near frontier AI at a lower cost than most.

      lucky_cloud 8 minutes ago

      Fascists