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Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday
Futurism • • business
Key Points:
- On September 3, three major AI chatbots—ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), and Grok (SpaceXAI)—experienced simultaneous outages without a clear explanation.
- OpenAI attributed ChatGPT's downtime to a routing error resolved within about 30 minutes, while Anthropic reported only some models were affected, and SpaceXAI acknowledged an outage at its Memphis data center.
- Speculation around the cause included potential issues with shared cloud providers like Cloudflare or Microsoft Azure, but both companies denied any service disruptions.
- SpaceXAI’s partial responsibility for the outage was confirmed via a social media statement apologizing for problems linked to its compute center, which also serves Anthropic as a customer.
- The reason behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT outage coinciding with competitors’ problems remains unclear, leaving the root cause of the simultaneous disruptions unresolved.
