TECHNOLOGY · VERIFIED DEVELOPMENT
Four Major AI Models Experience Rare Overlapping Downtime
WHY IT MATTERS
The rare overlapping downtime of multiple major AI models highlights the complexity and fragility of these systems, emphasizing the need for robust infrastructure and swift issue resolution to maintain reliable performance.
What happened
Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered significant service interruptions on Thursday morning. Anthropic reported a partial outage related to elevated errors on its Claude models at 9:23 am Eastern, which was resolved by 12:16 pm after a fix was deployed.
OpenAI reported elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, resulting in degraded performance, which was resolved by 12:55 pm after a mitigation was put in place.
xAI and Google also experienced downtime, although details were not provided.
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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Ars Technica · Kyle Orland · Discovery only; Condé Nast copyright terms apply