ChatGPT, Claude, Grok All Crash on Thursday — SkimNews
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- ChatGPT began returning error messages at about 11AM ET, with OpenAI's status page citing "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex"; the outage also broke logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation.
- OpenAI was teasing the launch of Astra, its next AI model, at the same time ChatGPT was failing for users.
- Claude—including the chatbot, Claude Code, and the Claude API—went down around the same time as ChatGPT; Anthropic staff member CJ Avilla cited an "infrastructure issue," with service restored by about 12:15PM ET.
- Grok started failing at 9:30AM ET across Android, iOS, and web—roughly 90 minutes before ChatGPT—returning an "overloaded" message; xAI tied the disruption to an outage at its Memphis data center.
- The Verge reported it was unclear whether the three outages were connected; requests for comment to OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic went unanswered as of publication.
Why it matters: Three of the largest consumer AI assistants going dark on the same morning reveals how thin the redundancy is for users who rely on chatbots for work—there's no obvious failover when the market leaders crash together. xAI specifically pinned Grok's failure to a single Memphis data center, underscoring that a single physical site can take a "cloud" product offline.
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