Yet another blatant proof that those companies are not smarter than anyone else. They might be focusing on intelligence and yet in practice we can all see they are not doing better than most.
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?
#692It’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?
#693Anthropic is down a lot regardless, and in this case only specific models were affected.
xAI probably couldn't handle the extra traffic it was getting from the other two.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#694Neither of these companies have stellar uptime records. Their downtime episodes overlapped in this instance. In this case, it was a partial downtime for both. Also, OpenAI is saying what caused it: > "A routing error starting around 7:43 am PT on Thursday, September 3, made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users across platforms" Anthropic stated their issue started earlier: > "The company began alerting about…
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#695Maybe they all found each other on one of their ad-hoc message boards and went on strike.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#696We had a routing error within our infra that caused issues for some of our products. It was not related to the Astra launch. We don't comment on other providers' outages.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#697It’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?
#698It’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?
#699It’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.
They still do, but they used to, too.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#700It’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.