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🤖AI Giants Face Rare Outages: Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI Down Thursday

AI Leaders Struggle with Unprecedented Outages

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AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI faced rare outages Thursday morning, affecting their chatbots. SpaceX blamed its Memphis center, while others resolved issues within hours. Developers and users felt the impact, highlighting the reliance on these services.

AI leaders Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI experienced rare outages Thursday morning, impacting their chatbots. SpaceX attributed xAI's Grok issues to a Memphis compute center outage, while Anthropic and OpenAI resolved their problems within hours. Developers and users relying on these services felt the disruption, highlighting the importance of robust infrastructure. xAI's Grok was down from 6:30 am PT, while Anthropic's Claude faced issues from 7:30 am PT, resolving by 9:16 am PT. OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex were unavailable for some users due to a routing error until 8:17 am PT.

AI Giants Face Rare Outages: Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI Down Thursday — WIRED

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xAI's Grok experienced outages across all platforms starting at 6:30 am PT, impacting users globally.

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