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GitHub Copilot: Some OpenAI models degraded in Copilot
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On March 5th, 2026, between approximately 00:26 and 00:44 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the GPT 3.5 Codex model due to an issue with our upstream provider. Users encountered elevated error rates when using GPT 3.5 Codex, impacting approximately 30% of requests. No other models were impacted. The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2026-03-05 00:47 UTC, resolved after 26 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Some OpenAI models degraded in Copilot
- Vendor
- GitHub Copilot
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/t2p9yhsww5lc
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