A massive infrastructure outage has affected major AI platforms and cloud services worldwide. According to Downdetector, users are reporting widespread downtime across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, as well as Google and Cloudflare.
Impact on Key AI Platforms
- Anthropic (Claude): Outages began around 13:40 UTC (16:40 EEST), crashing claude.ai, Claude Code, and the Claude API. Models including Mythos, Fable, and Opus are offline. Anthropic Console and Claude for Government remain operational.
- OpenAI (ChatGPT): Downdetector reports surged past 30,000 complaints. Users face "404 Not Found" errors when launching the chat interface.
- xAI (Grok): Issues started around 13:00 UTC (16:00 EEST). Users on X receive "Model unavailable" error messages when prompting.
- Google and Cloudflare: Widespread issues reported with Gemini AI and underlying Cloudflare edge infrastructure.
The root cause of the outage remains unknown. Engineering teams are investigating, with no estimated time of recovery provided yet.
