Frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI suffered rare service disruptions on Thursday morning, rendering their respective chatbots temporarily inaccessible. While the simultaneous nature of the failures initially suggested a shared dependency, each company attributed the issues to distinct, internal causes.<\/p>\n
SpaceX, xAI\u2019s parent company, confirmed that the Grok outage stemmed from an incident at its Memphis compute center. In a statement on Thursday afternoon, SpaceX apologized to affected compute partners, acknowledging the disruption. This comes amid a \u201ccompute partnership\u201d between xAI and Anthropic, announced in May.<\/p>\n
OpenAI spokesperson Kathleen Chaykowski told WIRED that a routing error beginning at approximately 7:43 am PT caused ChatGPT and Codex to go down for some users. A fix was implemented by 8:17 am PT, with systems continuing to be monitored.<\/p>\n
Anthropic, which declined to provide further comment, had reported a \u201cpartial outage\u201d starting at 6:23 am PT involving elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5. The company stated it identified the cause and deployed a fix shortly thereafter, marking the issue as resolved by 9:16 am PT. Claude Sonnet 5 experienced brief similar issues around 9 am PT.<\/p>\n
xAI reported investigating the Grok outage from 6:30 am PT, stating on its service status page that it was working to restore service as quickly as possible. By 10:05 am PT, xAI confirmed that traffic had returned to normal levels.<\/p>\n
Reports also surfaced regarding a potential Google Gemini outage, but Google did not confirm any incidents on its service status dashboard and did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Industry observers noted that multiple outages across the sector often indicate problems with cloud providers, content delivery networks, or other third-party vendors. However, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic cited external sources, and major infrastructure providers including Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure reported no disruptions on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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