OpenAI and Anthropic Experience Simultaneous Outages

On Thursday morning, AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI experienced rare outages that coincided across platforms. SpaceX attributed Grok’s issues to an outage at its Memphis compute center, while OpenAI cited a routing error affecting ChatGPT and Codex. Anthropic reported a partial outage involving Claude models but resolved it by mid-morning. Despite initial speculation about shared third-party causes, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic confirmed external factors. xAI marked the Grok incident as resolved by 10:05 am PT. The simultaneous outages raised questions about potential cloud provider issues, though major infrastructure companies like AWS and Microsoft Azure did not report problems. The article highlights the complexity of diagnosing such incidents in a highly interconnected tech ecosystem.