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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

On Thursday morning, four major AI models experienced a rare and simultaneous set of significant service disruptions. Anthropic first reported a partial outage at 9:23 am Eastern time, affecting Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5. The company identified the cause of the error within 15 minutes and reported that a fix had been deployed by 12:16 pm, resolving the issue.

Meanwhile, OpenAI reported elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, leading to degraded performance at 10:43 am Eastern time. Mitigation efforts were put in place approximately 30 minutes later, and the issue was marked as resolved by 12:55 pm.

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