Moondream AI co-founder Vikhyat K. argues major AI services fail to achieve three-nines availability
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Vikhyat K. highlights recent status pages showing Claude services at 99.5–99.75 percent uptime over 30 days and DeepSeek API at 99.88 percent across a longer window, both missing the 99.9 percent mark. The critique links these figures to export-controlled frontier models while noting that even government-tier Claude reached 99.93 percent in the same period.
Dashboard numbers versus real-world hiccups
Anthropic logged multiple elevated-error incidents in June that resolved quickly, yet independent observers note brief spikes may not always register as full downtime minutes, leaving the practical effect on users an open question.
What three-nines uptime actually permits
Hitting 99.9 percent still allows roughly 8.76 hours of annual downtime; current provider logs sit several hours above that threshold, though no public SLA targets or contractual commitments appear in the available data.
Users criticized Anthropic Claude services for unreliable uptime by comparing frequent crashes to failed relationships and dismissing related export controls as regulatory theater.
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In fairness, DeepSeek doesn't currently have 3 nines but it's so close… frustrating
we put export controls on tech that can’t even get 3 nines of availability
@vikhyatk Export controls happened right around the second 9.
@vikhyatk that is honestly such a brutal way to put it.
@vikhyatk export controls on a model that crashes more than my last relationship. truly peak regulatory theater.