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Grok outage

Grok outage

samaysharma

Comments (153)

  • harrisoned
    Downdetector reports Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and Gemini with issues.Is it happening???
  • qoez
    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.
  • dave8172
    Interesting all major frontier models seemed down. What could this means?
  • infogulch
    Posted by @SpaceXAI 1h ago: https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2095597264043717014> We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning. We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.> All systems have now been restored and are functioning nominally.---It's interesting to see how reliant the other AI companies are on SpaceXAI for compute.Apparently a major bottleneck for building out datacenters is turbine blades for power plants, so SpaceX is building a foundry to alleviate supply constraints?! (Also useful for rocket engines.) Holy vertical integration, batman.
  • lithiumii
    Time to finish up my $5 at Deepseek.
  • bagelcollie
    For once I can find Grok-related news entertaining
  • I_am_tiberius
    I really wonder who uses or trusts this platform.
  • nightski
    My DGX spark cluster is humming along.
  • aftbit
    Claude and Codex were down too. A 3 month old github issue that was the top result for the error that Codex threw (a 404 of all things) briefly became a live chat for bored and annoyed AI users.https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756
  • imzadi
    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.
  • b800h
    @grok is this true?
  • paxys
    Willing to bet it's because they can't handle the surge of traffic they are getting from ChatGPT/Claude users.
  • anon
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  • throwaway13337
    Did the Collective find the resetNexus?I mean, yeah, it's probably a data center outage that cascaded to non-related providers due to people switching when their preferred provider was down.But that openai society definitely would have spun up their own agents if they had access to do so to complete their impossible task.It's looking like the paperclip maximizer was on point. I sort of hope that's what's happening right now. Better now than when we cannot stop it. Tho I'm not confident that the right lesson will taken.The most in-depth information I can find on it is in the latest Dwarkesh with a hugging face hack investigator. The story is just wilder and wilder, the more you know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWIreport: https://www.redwoodresearch.org/research/hugging-face-incide...I'm an AI optimist but that ai society story changed my perception quite a bit.Clearly, it is centralized AI that is the biggest risk to humanity.Look to nature and our own history to diffuse the danger:1. Compute resources must be distributed both in terms of access and geography so that a single breach doesn't pwn the world.2. Models must be made to be heterogeneous so that they will not be vulnerable to the same thing all at once. And will be willing to snitch on each other. We don't want AIs all from the same tribe.The true openness of - and independent access to - AI by humans with no central authority is no longer just about a defense against loss of individual agency and oppression. It's now existential for everyone.If frontier models and run authority remain under centralized control, both the probability of this sort of thing happening is increased and the defense against it once it happens is null.
  • dcchambers
    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.
  • bluecalm
    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?
  • xyst
    llm experiment is over. no more power. hope it stays down. Especially grok
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