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Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#291

Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.

It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.

Just now I got this from gemini

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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#293

I thrive in these types of challenges. Anyways... According to Claude: "Yes, there is a multi-provider outage happening today. Downdetector is reporting problems affecting OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Cursor, with Grok and Claude reports starting around 9:00 am ET and OpenAI reports following around 10:30 am ET. Zero Hedge On the Anthropic side, users saw a spike in errors starting around 9:40 am EDT across models inclu…

30 mins and they still havent figured it out .. people are gonna loose their jobs trying to figure this out .. 30mins is too long when millions use it

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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#297

Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.

It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.

Lol I didn't even think about Gemini missing from the list. Not sure what that says about Gemini or me :)

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#298

Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.

It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.

Not even the best agent that starts with a G
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