Maybe they all found each other on one of their ad-hoc message boards and went on strike.
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?
#622If AI providers had to push the 'Big Red Button' do you think they would tell the public?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#623https://archive.ph/3zcMG It was extremely weird... and if it was a load thing they probably would have explained it by now?
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#624It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#625It could be as simple as a new model (astra) was released which takes more resources combined with a surge in usage due to novelty took down OpenAI. Meanwhile everyone at big companies have the ability to switch models and moved to Anthropic pushing it too over the edge.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#626The OpenAI outage lasted only 15 minutes and when it happened everyone started to use the other models which created super heavy load for them. This then cascaded into them all being down.
Does this really need an explanation?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#627The OpenAI outage lasted only 15 minutes and when it happened everyone started to use the other models which created super heavy load for them. This then cascaded into them all being down. Does this really need an explanation?
Not that uncommon. It's so easy to just put up the new thing and make the old thing the failure route. But the old thing nearly never had the bandwidth for today's traffic. A famous EBay outage some years ago was just such a scenario.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#628If it's a boring reason, they should just say so. To decline to comment seems very fishy.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#629It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
amazon?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#630It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Could you expand on this more? It's not clear to me what this is implying.