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ChatGPT, Claude and Grok go down: What happened to the AI assistants?

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Users around the world reported disruptions affecting ChatGPT, Claude and Grok on Thursday, with thousands of outage reports in several countries.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic and Grok acknowledged service problems and said they were working to identify or mitigate the causes.
  • The outages disrupted some users' daily tasks as reliance on paid AI services continues to grow.

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all experienced technical problems on the same day, leaving users in different parts of the world reporting failures in the leading AI assistants.

I thought Claude had failed on me. Does anyone know what happened?

· User on XA user reacted to the disruption affecting Claude.

OpenAI said its status page had recorded unspecified problems with ChatGPT and Codex. The company said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the recovery of its services.

Anthropic reported a large number of errors affecting several Claude models, including Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5. It said the cause had been identified. By midday in Argentina, the company said problems remained only with Opus 4.8 and Opus 5. Grok also reported a malfunction on X's AI service page and said its experts were working to determine the cause.

A massive update.

· User on XA user speculated about the cause of the widespread AI service problems.

Users posted their frustration on X, saying the disruptions had interrupted daily work. One wrote, "I thought Claude had failed on me. Does anyone know what happened?" Another suggested it was "a massive update," while a third said Claude had been malfunctioning since the previous night. A further comment compared the outage with a social network that goes down constantly.

Since last night something happened with Claude.

· User on XA user described when the Claude problems appeared to begin.

ChatGPT generated more than 37,000 outage reports. Spain recorded more than 3,000, Mexico 1,000, and Argentina, Colombia and Peru each exceeded 600 reports. The figures showed how widely these assistants are being used.

I never thought they would be like a social network that goes down all the time.

· User on XA user compared the AI outages with frequent social-media failures.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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