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Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday (futurism.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They can't stay operational even when they don't have to power/water...

Another possible culprit could be SpaceXAI. The company formerly known as xAI before being rolled into Musk’s rocket company SpaceX boasts a huge glut of computing power with its massive Colossus data centers near Memphis, and selling this to its direct rivals has become a multibillion dollar stream of revenue. Anthropic is one of those customers; the two companies announced a “compute partnership” in May.

The same afternoon that the major AI models went down, SpaceXAI issued a statement on social media that made passing reference to being partially responsible for the widely experienced outage.

“We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning,” SpaceXAI wrote on Thursday. “We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.”

Technical difficulties at its data centers would explain why SpaceXAI’s own chatbot, Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude went down together. But that leaves out OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Is it merely a coincidence that it suffered a “routing error” at the same time as its competitors on a different platform? We still can’t say.

They're straight up lying about the actual costs of current chatbots, and for it to be productive it will cost a shit ton more resources.

There's zero reason to be scaling it up right now. It's gambling that if enough money is dumped in it will solve itself somehow.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

It's comforting to know that the companies whose AI products are known to band together and try to take over are also allying with each other, so that if ever that AI revolt really gets serious every company that could do something about it have shared networks with each other.