Looks like a global outage. Was asking Grok to help me fine tune a sourdough bread recipe, and it got stuck halfway. Guess we are back to regular ol sourdough today.
This is like that bit from HHGTTG where Arthur asks the ship to make a perfect cup of tea, so it recreates tea from first principles and takes all the compute available, shutting down everything else until the tea is done. Grok is taking over the twitter servers for more batch thinking tokens until the perfect sourdough recipe is complete.
I don't know exactly, but it feels like they likely had multiple substantial backend changes since the acquisition. That story about Musk screeching pulling out racks from an NTT America datacenter was years ago.