The AI Studio crash on very large prompts. The issue is someone badly decided to put every letter in and on top of that made some error with leaving html comment next to each one. This generates MILIONS of DOM nodes which affects performance of AI studio, making the browser crash. One can stop thi…

Welcome to the forum. It’s been flagged. We got past the ‘it works for me’ part. Hopefully the right people will get to fix it and give @elkolorado a decent amount of brownie points for debugging it for them.

Its been 8 days, has your team provided a first feedback? I have opened a thread on this prior to knowing this thread. I have explained my use case which is a fairly straightforward and simple one and yet there is unbearable lag and slowness at low token usage. This has been happening to me since a …

Followed up with the team on this. Hang tight! Will update when I have more info.

Hey @Tim_Wu this is to be expected, the time to first token and broadly the response time go up with the addition of more tokens. It can also depend on the load on the servers which varies by time of day.

Closing the loop on this, we pushed some changes which should fix the span issue and a few other bugs. Please let us know if you run into any other issues.

Appreciate the quick response by the team!

Hey there, great to hear. I will check on both Windows and Mac and let you know.

thanks for the update - is this live now, or shall we wait for release? I see improvement - spans arent generated for each letter anymore, although the performance is still slow, and it crashes on large prompt as mentioned above. Furthermore, although the spans are removed, there is still issue wi…

Flagged to the team to look into this more, thanks for reporting!

Hey there, just to confirm, there is still lag, I have tested on Windows 11, Google Chrome. after 7900 tokens, two responses from Gemini Pro, I get lag while typing. @ elkolorado can you uncheck the solution flag for this post as it is not solved yet.

AI Studio crashing - milions of DOM <span>

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elkolorado November 16, 2024, 9:41am 21

Hello, what do you mean?

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AI Studio crashing - milions of DOM <span>

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