Major AI Outage: Grok, Claude Are Down. ChatGPT, Gemini Back Up
PCMag • • business
Key Points:
- A widespread outage affected multiple AI platforms including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and X's Grok, starting around 10:30 a.m. ET and peaking with over 36,000 reports on Downdetector.
- OpenAI reported 24 minutes of downtime for ChatGPT and Codex, applied a fix, and is monitoring recovery, with the service now fully operational but sometimes slow; the cause of the outage has not been disclosed.
- Anthropic experienced earlier issues with Claude models, issued a fix, and is rolling out recoveries, while Google has not acknowledged Gemini outages despite user errors and Downdetector reports.
- Grok and Cursor also faced disruptions, though X’s status page showed no official service disruptions; Cloudflare stated it had no significant service issues despite reports.
- This simultaneous outage across major AI services is notable as it did not affect other business sectors, and updates will follow as more information becomes available.
