ChatGPT, Claude and Grok face simultaneous outages

Major artificial intelligence services experienced simultaneous outages on Thursday, affecting thousands of users globally. The disruptions impacted OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok, with some users also reporting issues with Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot. According to Downdetector, an outage tracking website, reports of outages began surging in the evening, with users flagging issues ranging from total website inaccessibility to internal server errors.

The outages were unusual in that they affected multiple major AI models at the same time. While brief outages of individual AI services like ChatGPT and Claude do occur occasionally, simultaneous disruptions across major AI models remain rare. The cause of the outages is not specified, but according to Downdetector, users across AI platforms started experiencing issues accessing ChatGPT at around 11 a.m. ET.

Service was restored to the affected AI platforms, with Anthropic reporting that the issue affecting Claude had been resolved as of 9:16 PT / 16:16 UTC. OpenAI's status page acknowledged issues and elevated errors across ChatGPT, stating that mitigation had been applied and recovery was being monitored.

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