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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?

#691

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.

Not doing better than most at routine IT/platform stuff, they seem to be doing fantastically at co-opting the US Gov into their "vision" and ramming through DC's getting built.

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

#692

It’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.

Why would that be probable? People on average are fantastically bad at getting probabilities right.

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

#693
OpenAI was rushing and making last minute changes for a big product launch. Easy to mess something up in that situation. The outage lasted like 20 minutes.

Anthropic 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?

#694

Neither 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…

Do you know the probability of all these companies being down at precisely the same time?

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

#696
I work at OpenAI and I was the Incident Commander for yesterday's outage.

We 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?

#697

It’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.

Tracking outages as well as any changes in API response time across these providers could be interesting.

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

#698

It’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.

Or it’s monopolistic collaboration at the corporate level which would also be a huge scandal in the US

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

#699

It’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.

The NSA used to spy on Americans!

They still do, but they used to, too.

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

#700

It’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.

Maybe it was a power hub. And we're not allowed to know where the DC is. If we knew it was a power issue, then with other information (perhaps over time) we could determine the DC location. Or something along these lines.
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