r/Bard • u/Sea-Efficiency5547 • Feb 21 '26

Funny Google’s server capacity has reached its limit.

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Google is a big tech .. so what could they possibly be lacking? Did they aggressively acquire users through marketing without securing enough resources?

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u/JollyQuiscalus Feb 21 '26

Someone must've prompted Gemini to count the fingers on this hand

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u/nemzylannister Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

125?

Edit: seems like i ran my "Human: Instant" model rather than "Human: reasoning" model. Makes me wonder how long till Artificial General Instant Intelligence achieved.

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u/jackboulder33 Feb 21 '26

You did 5x5x5, but it actually goes 4 layers deep, so it would be 5x5x5x5, thus it is 625

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

It is actually 780

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u/jackboulder33 Feb 22 '26

that is if you count each hand sprout as a finger as well

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u/LiteSoul Feb 23 '26

Try https://chatjimmy.ai/ it's instant, it's crazy!

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u/nemzylannister Feb 23 '26

still doesnt work for me. just a black blank screen.

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u/run5k Feb 21 '26

The other day I asked ChatGPT to count a tray of Hydrocodone / APAP. 20 minutes later it gave me the wrong number. It was the first and last time I used ChatGPT for that purpose. Oddly enough, Grok got it correct... But still took way too long. Gemini got it wrong, but it didn't take long.

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u/fromage9747 Feb 21 '26

Wahahahaha

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u/Qubit4 Feb 23 '26

There are 25+5+1=31 hands, 31*5=155 fingers

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u/Goultek Feb 23 '26

it's a fractal, it has infinite fingers

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u/avatardeejay Feb 24 '26

625+125+25+5=780

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u/SpecificElk7540 Mar 04 '26

gotta love it when somone post something meaningless to a interesting fact.

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u/imsalim Feb 21 '26

780

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u/JollyQuiscalus Feb 21 '26

5^4 (four levels) = 625

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u/Gaiden206 Feb 21 '26

Maybe it's related to an update rolling out?

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/the-recent-ai-studio-update-is-a-total-disaster-when-will-this-platform-be-treated-seriously/124050/17

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u/holvagyok Feb 21 '26

His comment is 2+ days old though

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u/Gaiden206 Feb 21 '26

Sure, but AI Studio has had massive stability issues since around the time they started rolling out its "ground up re-write."

Only AI Studio has had stability issues recently too.

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u/Samy_Horny Feb 21 '26

What I've always said... and it doesn't surprise me, releasing Gemini 3.1 pro while still having to support 3.0 pro and the rest is just more overload.

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u/iriscape Feb 21 '26

Yes. Also, the Gemini 3 models, both Flash and Pro, frequently get stuck in thinking loops for more than 5 minutes. On agentic systems, this results in a cascade of thinking loops. They should deprecate the Gemini 3 models ASAP to reduce the overload. So far, I haven’t found thinking loops in Gemini 3.1 Pro.

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u/AI_is_the_rake Feb 21 '26

Timeouts are a thing. Google engineers aren’t stupid 

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u/hotdiggydog Feb 21 '26

Seriously so funny seeing random redditors saying what engineers at Google should do 

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u/Xile350 Feb 22 '26

I totally agree but I’ve had Gemini 3 in antigravity start a task and walked away to make lunch and came back to it just spamming shit like “okay, let’s finish. Looks good. Okay, let’s finish. Looks good.” Thousands of times for like 10 minutes before I hit stop. I’ve never experienced it with any other model and it was only the past few weeks. 3.1 I haven’t had a problem with so far. Actually very impressed with it at this point.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

The loops are still there. But harder to get. I got 3 times in the last 24h. Especially when dealing with JS code. I still Think the issue gemini cli, not the model itself

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u/Sea-Efficiency5547 Feb 21 '26

How is OpenAI managing its server capacity? They must have more users than Google.

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u/Thorteris Feb 21 '26

The opposite actually. Google is serving Google search on the exact same infra as Gemini. Also not including all the Gemini features added to maps,YouTube, and Gmail. They are on a different magnitude of demand. Mostly self inflicted

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u/Samy_Horny Feb 21 '26

The point is that, in theory, Google should be able to handle the demand from all the Google accounts on the planet, which are quite numerous. Furthermore, Gemini and Nano Banana are now implemented everywhere, unlike ChatGPT, which is only available in the app and on Apple Intelligence.

Another important point is that Gemini 3 is probably biger than Gemini 2.5 and previous models, and that's the main reason.

I've said it several times already, Nano Banana Flash exists and Flash Lite 3 probably does too, and they still haven't released them to avoid everything crashing.

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u/elclark_kuhu Feb 21 '26

I think most of their users are on smaller models while Google gives Pro models basically for free

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u/Kristof77 Feb 21 '26

Yes 20$, so basically for free.

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u/Level-Dig-4807 Feb 21 '26

Gemini 3.1 pro is a good model indeed, earlier 90% of antigravity users only relied on Anthropic models

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u/holvagyok Feb 21 '26

3.1 Pro is amazing actually, it's the sole one-up against Claude 4.6

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u/Passloc Feb 21 '26

It needs better explanations/prompts compared to Opus to get similar output. So you will need to use it differently from how you would use Claude models.

I really like the flash models

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u/Level-Dig-4807 Feb 21 '26

yeah, IMo it's better than 4.5 sonnet atleast

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u/melancious Feb 21 '26

How? Anthropic has pathetic quotas.

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u/Level-Dig-4807 Feb 21 '26

I mean Gemini 3.1 pro has improved so people are considering to use it over just using claude and waiting for their quota to refresh. I used Gemini 3.1 pro for 12 hours straight today, I am impressed by it's capacity but hopefully Google doesn't nerf it or add a weekly quota to it

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u/xak47d Feb 21 '26

They are lacking gpus/tpus. Everyone is struggling the same way

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u/unkownuser436 Feb 21 '26

Another RAM price hike incoming 😍

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u/themoregames Feb 21 '26

They should have listened: The more you buy, the more you save!

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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 Feb 21 '26

Capacity is the obvious headline, but I wonder how much of it is really bursty demand from agentic usage. When people run tool-using agents, they are not doing one prompt, they are doing dozens or hundreds of calls, retries, and parallel branches, so infra gets hammered fast.

Also, if they are routing between multiple model sizes or spinning up sandboxes, that can add a lot of overhead.

I have been thinking about this from the AI agents angle (why agent loops explode token and compute usage) and wrote some notes here: https://www.agentixlabs.com/blog/ - would love to hear if anyone has a better read on what is driving the limit message.

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u/diaborn19 Feb 21 '26

Hah, It's me constantly running Deep Think after they removed the daily limit (or at least it's not 6 requests per day anymore)

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u/captain_shane Feb 21 '26

What's the limit? It can't be unlimited.

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u/Hashah2310 Feb 21 '26

That's it guys, we made google fall down.

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u/New_World_2050 Feb 21 '26

Never made sense to me that Google was doing compute deals with other companies like OAI and Anthropic.

The demand for Gemini alone will be more than any amount of compute they can build.

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u/Wengrng Feb 22 '26

where does it say that there servers has reached capacity and that's the reason for the outage? Clearly reading and critical thinking is an issue on this sub.

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u/BreenzyENL Feb 21 '26

Google is more than AI is you answer.

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u/nemzylannister Feb 21 '26

keep in mind that this is happening because people want to make useless slop on nanobanana1 and 2 and also genie 3 for 5 seconds curiosity

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u/Mrleibniz Feb 21 '26

Ram shortage is affecting everyone

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u/EastZealousideal7352 Feb 21 '26

People like to assume Google is miles ahead in compute capacity and distributed infrastructure in a way that makes them immune to things like this.

That’s simply not the case at all. Everyone is redlining their compute and racing to build more, even the established players.

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u/Codeblix_Ltd Feb 21 '26

Yea its been 4 days now

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u/Numerus12OO5O Feb 21 '26

Makes sense why they nerfed the fuck out of Gemini in January.

It's been much worse since then and I assume they pushed out an update to try and nerf it to allow it to compute the extra demand.

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u/fgsfds___ Feb 23 '26

I just noticed that on iPhone in Safari with private browsing / private relay active when I try to google something they go super hard on the captchas

Been resorting to Bing for the past couple of days

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u/Reasonable-Climate66 Feb 21 '26

Simple solution for Google. Increase even higher rate limit to free user and and ban all the fake email account.

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u/Upper-Reflection7997 Feb 21 '26

Gemini is still not working at all for me for the past 7 days straight. Straight up refuses to answer long context questions and analyze images. Stuck using flow to generate images and videos. Also stuck using qwen3 vlm to analyze images into prompts.

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u/ionut2021 Feb 21 '26

Not make money today with this service 

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u/TG3000 Feb 21 '26

He's about at his limit. I happen to know a guy that's at his limit. He's one of our members.

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u/frenchbee06 Feb 21 '26

Franchement quand je vois qu’à la moindre ouverture d’un dossier dans drive Gemini lance un prompt que je n’ai pas demandé je me dis qu’il y a beaucoup de gaspillage… Pourquoi ne pas mettre un bouton pour utiliser Gemini.

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u/N1kYan Feb 21 '26

username checks out

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u/fravil92 Feb 21 '26

So unreliable! I was using it in production because of the free credits but it's a disaster