Global Artificial Intelligence Outage Occurred
Leading AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok faced access issues worldwide.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok—owned by Elon Musk—AI models became inaccessible for numerous users globally.
Global Access Issues
According to data from real-time outage monitoring platform Downdetector, thousands of users from all over the world experienced difficulties accessing popular AI systems.
This sudden outage, affecting millions of people, caused temporary disruptions in business and daily usage processes.
Affected AI Platforms
The global disruption mostly affected OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude AI, and xAI's Grok models.
Additionally, some users reported facing similar problems with Google Gemini systems.
User Reports and Company Statements
The number of users reporting issues on both ChatGPT's website and mobile application exceeded 43,000.
OpenAI officials announced that a high rate of errors was recorded on the ChatGPT and Codex platforms, and remediation measures were deployed immediately.
Potential Cause of Failure and Microsoft Azure Connection
The possibility that the root cause of the failure may be linked to Microsoft Azure services, which these AI bots use for their cloud infrastructure, is being considered.
A noticeable increase in error reports was also observed simultaneously at the cloud provider.
Efforts by Anthropic
The Anthropic team announced that they identified the source of the high error rates in requests made to Claude models.
Company engineers carried out intensive work to permanently resolve this technical issue.