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- For once I can find Grok-related news entertainingby bagelcollie
- Time to finish up my $5 at Deepseek.by lithiumii
- In the future (ha ha ha) when everyone has become totally LLM dependent a service outage will cause all of them to stop walking and talking and otherwise functioning and their heads will simply droop down while they stand or sit silently in place.by binary132
- Willing to bet it's because they can't handle the surge of traffic they are getting from ChatGPT/Claude users.by paxys
- 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.
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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.
by infogulch - Interesting all major frontier models seemed down. What could this means?by dave8172
- 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.by qoez
- Downdetector reports Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and Gemini with issues.
Is it happening???
by harrisoned