Widespread AI outage underway

Josephine Walker

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OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok are all down Thursday morning, according to the outage company Downdetector.

Why it matters: Outages are common, but it's unusual for all three to go down at once, especially as the world increasingly relies on AI models.

There have also been reported issues with Google's Gemini, but the company has not issued a confirmed outage notice.

Driving the news: Anthropic's Claude dashboard is experiencing outages across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and says all other models "have recovered to baseline error rate."

ChatGPT and Codex are actively experiencing "elevated errors," according to OpenAI's dashboard.
Grok is "experiencing issues," according to xAI, which says it's working on the problem.

The intrigue: Microsoft Azure, which provides cloud services for all three models, is also experiencing outages, and some tech outlets have suggested Microsoft's problem may be contributing to the AI model outages.

Editor's note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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