Major AI Chatbot Outage Affects Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Users
A widespread outage has impacted several leading AI platforms, including X's Grok, Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini. Reports on Downdetector surged, indicating thousands of users experienced problems accessing or using these services. The issues for OpenAI services began around 10:30 a.m. ET, with reports exceeding 36,000 at their peak. Google Gemini also saw a spike in reports around the same time, though Google has not officially acknowledged an outage. Anthropic’s Claude experienced issues earlier in the day, with a significant surge an hour later, affecting multiple models. X's Grok also reported being down, displaying warnings of experiencing issues. While some services like ChatGPT and Gemini have since reported being fully operational or recovering, Grok continued to show errors. SpaceXAI later apologized for the Grok outage, attributing it to an issue at their Memphis compute center, which has since been resolved. 
