True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
This morning, a limited outage emerged affecting OpenAI's ChatGPT service alongside similar disruptions impacting SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude. A routing error, which commenced around 7:43 am Pacific Time on September 3, led to ChatGPT and Codex becoming unavailable for certain users across various platforms. OpenAI's status page confirmed elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex at the time of reporting.
Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude service experienced a three-hour and six-minute outage, during which there were elevated error rates affecting Sonnet 5 and other models. Anthropic's spokesperson confirmed that Claude is fully back up after an infrastructure issue that caused the partial outage across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, SpaceX's Grok service was reporting issues since 6:30 am Pacific Time, with the company stating that it was working to restore service as quickly as possible. Despite these AI service disruptions, Cloudflare, a shared infrastructure provider for all three companies, reported that its systems were running smoothly, with no significant service disruptions at this time.
However, the co-occurrence of these availability problems at three different AI providers has raised the possibility of an underlying issue affecting a common provider. Although cloud computing giants AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure appeared unaffected by these technical difficulties, the situation remains unusual.
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