The Google AI assistant, Gemini, appearred to be suffering an outage with users flocking to Down Detector to report that the Pro version of Gemini was running slowly or ignoring prompts completely. Though, the Flash version seemed to be working just fine.
An initial spike of nearly 3,000 reports on Down Detector started around 10:35 am Pacific. Some commentators said that they were told they were making too many requests, while others received error messages.
We were able to find the Google AI Studio and Gemini API status page, where Google indicated that an issue had occurred around 11 am.
Things seemed to clearup by noon Pacific.
We monitored the Gemini outage and will keep you posted as we learn more.
DownDetector spike
We first noticed reports picking up on Down Detector around 10:30 am Pacific with the a huge spike around 11:20 am.
Gemini thinks Gemini is working
We tried asking Gemini if it was suffering from any issues but the chatbot seems to believe that it's working just fine.
That said, we asked in the Flash version and many reports are claiming its the Pro tier that seems messed up.
Video prompt fails
We asked Gemini to make a video and received a message that reads:
"I couldn't do that because I'm getting a lot of requests right now. Please try again later."
A number of comments elsewhere seem to reveal similar messages.
Gemini and AI Studio outage acknowledged
There is a Gemini API status and AI Studio status page which indicates that something is going on with Gemini.
The page shows an outage with an investigation underway as of 11 am Pacific.
The page says, "We are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible."
Reports take a steep dive
Well, for all that, the reports on DD have steeply fallen from the nearly 3,000 height.
Currently, reports sit around 750 but we are still seeing people saying that they're having trouble using Gemini.
An exciting few minutes but it looks done
The AI studio and Gemini API status page still says that the Google is investigating the issue that caused an outage today.
However, the status bars show things in the clear.
Over on DD, reports have dropped to under 300, as of this writing.
That doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is in the clear, but a majority of users can probably use Gemini properly again.
We tried on our accounts and were able to use prompts fairly smoothly.
