Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence assistant went offline Monday morning, Aug. 24, leaving users unable to access multiple versions of the popular chatbot. Several Claude models, including Fable 5 and Opus 5, began returning error messages when users attempted to submit queries, with notifications citing unexpected capacity issues as the reason for the disruption.
The company’s official status page acknowledged the widespread problem, indicating that four major Claude models were experiencing elevated error rates. Anthropic stated it was investigating the situation but provided no timeline for restoration or details about the underlying cause of the outage. Subsequent status updates offered minimal new information, with the company only confirming it continued working to resolve the technical difficulties.
The outage appears to be isolated to Claude’s systems, as competing artificial intelligence platforms from other developers remained operational during the incident. Users seeking to continue their work with language models had the option to switch to alternative services while waiting for Claude’s restoration.
Anthropic has not yet released a detailed explanation of what triggered the service disruption or provided an estimated recovery time for affected users.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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