Multiple artificial intelligence platforms experienced widespread outages on Thursday, affecting millions of users globally. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok all reported significant service disruptions beginning around 11 a.m. ET, according to monitoring data from DownDetector. The simultaneous failure across competing AI providers marked an unusually coordinated technical failure, as individual platform outages typically occur in isolation.
Initial reports indicated elevated error rates across various AI services and their underlying models. OpenAI’s status dashboard confirmed degraded performance for ChatGPT and its Codex system, while Anthropic documented issues affecting multiple Claude model versions including Opus and Fable iterations. The outages impacted both web interfaces and API access for several providers, limiting users’ ability to access these tools through different channels.
By early afternoon, service restoration efforts were underway across the industry. Anthropic announced that Claude had returned to full operational status by 4:16 p.m. UTC following an infrastructure malfunction. OpenAI indicated it had implemented corrective measures and was actively monitoring system recovery. However, the underlying cause of the coordinated failures remained unclear at the time of initial reporting.
While brief interruptions among AI platforms occur occasionally, the synchronized nature of Thursday’s outage across multiple independent companies proved exceptional. Investigators continued examining the incident to determine whether the disruptions stemmed from a shared infrastructure dependency or represented separate technical issues occurring concurrently.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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