ChatGPT, Claude, Grok Hit by Simultaneous Outage — SkimNews
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- OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing "elevated errors" per OpenAI's status dashboard, with outages confirmed by Downdetector on Thursday morning.
- Anthropic's Claude dashboard shows outages affecting Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, while other Claude models have "recovered to baseline error rate," per Axios.
- xAI's Grok is "experiencing issues," with the company saying it's actively working on a resolution.
- Microsoft Azure, the cloud provider serving all three AI services, is also experiencing outages, and tech outlets including 9to5Google have linked Azure's problems to the chatbot disruptions.
- Google's Gemini has reported issues though the company has not issued a confirmed outage notice.
- It's unusual for all three major AI models to go down at once, per Axios, especially as global reliance on AI tools continues to grow.
Why it matters: Because Microsoft Azure provides cloud services for all three affected AI models, a single infrastructure provider's outage can take multiple major chatbots offline at once—exactly the scenario Downdetector confirmed Thursday morning when ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went dark simultaneously.
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