ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down simultaneously. OpenAI and Anthropic reported degraded performance and are working on fixes.
Grok's app and web are overloaded.
The cause is unknown.
What happened
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all experienced issues on the same morning. ChatGPT started returning errors around 11AM ET, affecting logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation. Anthropic's Claude chatbot and API were also impacted, with Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 still affected.
Why it matters
The simultaneous outages highlight the dependency many users have on these AI tools for daily tasks. OpenAI said it applied a mitigation but is still seeing degraded performance. Anthropic technical staff member CJ Avilla said an infrastructure issue caused a partial outage and that they don't have an ETA yet. Grok's app on Android, iOS, and the web is also down.
What to watch
OpenAI is teasing the launch of Astra, its new AI model, during this outage. The cause of the issues is unclear, and whether they are related has not been determined. The Verge has reached out to OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic for comments but hasn't heard back yet.
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The simultaneous outage of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude is notable because these are among the most widely used AI chatbots. The fact that they all went down around the same time suggests a possible shared cause, such as a common infrastructure provider or a broader internet issue, though the article does not confirm any link. OpenAI's mention of "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex" and its mitigation effort suggests a technical problem on its side. Anthropic's reference to an "infrastructure issue" points to a similar internal cause. Grok's error message about being overloaded hints at capacity constraints. The outages come as OpenAI is teasing Astra, a new AI model, which may put additional pressure on its systems. The lack of immediate answers from the companies leaves users uncertain about when these services will be fully restored.
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