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GitHub Copilot: Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers
GitHub Copilot · github.comImpact: criticalResolved2026-08-27 12:12 UTC
Public — what happened
Summary
On August 27th, 2026, between approximately 09:20 and 12:14 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the Kimi K3 model due to an issue with our upstream provider. Users encountered elevated error rates when using Kimi K3. No other models were impacted. <br /><br />The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider. GitHub is working with our provider to further improve the resiliency of the service to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Timeline
- Started — 2026-08-27 10:04 UTC
- Last update — 2026-08-27 12:12 UTC
- Resolved — 2026-08-27 12:12 UTC
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