ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI

In brief

• ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced outages Thursday morning.
• Users said losing access to the AI tools disrupted their writing, research, and coding.
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI restored their affected services by Thursday afternoon.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced service disruptions Thursday morning, preventing some users from accessing the AI platforms or generating responses.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI acknowledged problems affecting their services, though it is unclear if the incidents were connected.

On X, users said the outages had disrupted their work, leaving them without AI tools they used for writing, research, coding, and other daily tasks.

“Claude, Grok and ChatGPT. How can anyone get any work done?” chemist and science communicator Simon Maechling wrote on X.

“ChatGPT is down, and I am immediately 50 IQ points dumber,” AI tool developer Every CEO Dan Shipper joked.

OpenAI drew the most complaints, with reports on Downdetector peaking at approximately 38,000. Among users who identified a specific problem, 80% selected ChatGPT, 8% Codex, and 7% the app.

The company began investigating elevated errors affecting ChatGPT and Codex at 10:43 a.m. EST. OpenAI said it applied a mitigation at 11:17 a.m. and was monitoring the recovery.