Posted 3/22/2024, 1:04:58 PM
Chinese Chatbot Kimi Faces 2-Day Outage After Traffic Surge From Upgrade
- Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI had a 2-day outage for its Kimi chatbot due to a surge in user traffic, likely driven by interest after its recent upgrade
- The outage began Wednesday morning as traffic rose faster than the system was designed to handle
- Moonshot AI apologized and said engineers are working to expand capacity to handle more users
- The outage came the same day Moonshot announced Kimi can now process 2 million Chinese characters, up from 200,000 before
- A similar ChatGPT outage occurred in November after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4 Turbo model