OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI hit with near-simultaneous outages
openai, anthropic, and xai experienced rare outages on thursday morning, but reasons remain unclear. this affects users of chatgpt, claude, and grok.
on thursday morning, openai, anthropic, and xai experienced outages, affecting chatgpt, claude, and grok. spacex reported that grok's issues were caused by an outage at its memphis compute center. openai attributed its outage to a routing error starting at 7:43 am pt, while anthropic identified and fixed the cause, marking the issue as resolved by 9:16 am pt. the simultaneous nature of the outages suggests a potential shared cause, but none of the companies pointed to a third-party vendor.