ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok All Went Down Thursday — SkimNews
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- ChatGPT began returning error messages at approximately 11AM ET, with OpenAI's status page citing "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex," and the outage rippled across logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation.
- The ChatGPT outage occurred as OpenAI was teasing the launch of Astra, its new AI model.
- Claude (chatbot, Claude Code, and the Claude API) went down around the same time due to an "infrastructure issue" identified by Anthropic technical staff member CJ Avilla, with services restored by approximately 12:15PM ET.
- Grok started experiencing outages across Android, iOS, and web at 9:30AM ET, returning a "This model is overloaded right now" message to users before being fixed.
- The cause of the three outages remains unknown and it is unclear whether the incidents were related — The Verge's requests for comment from OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic went unanswered.
Why it matters: The simultaneous outage knocked out the three biggest AI chatbots — taking Claude Code, Codex, voice mode, search, and image generation offline in one window — without any disclosed cause or confirmed link between the three incidents, leaving users with no explanation or pattern to plan around.
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