Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Summary
Four major AI services from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google experienced overlapping outages on Thursday morning. The companies reported issues at different times, but most fixed their problems within a few hours.Key Facts
- Anthropic reported partial outages for several versions of its Claude AI models starting at 9:23 am and fixed them by 12:16 pm.
- OpenAI saw degraded performance in ChatGPT and Codex beginning at 10:43 am, resolving by 12:55 pm.
- xAI’s Grok AI showed errors to users from early morning, with reports peaking around 9:45 am before improving later.
- Google’s Gemini AI experienced a likely outage between about 10:45 and 11:15 am based on user reports and API data.
- Other major internet services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare reported no confirmed issues despite some user reports.
- Having four leading AI models face service interruptions over the same short period is very rare.
- Claude AI had 99.4% uptime over the last 90 days, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 99.63%, and Codex had 100%.
- Similar partial outages and delays in AI services occurred in late August but multiple simultaneous outages are unusual.
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