ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky. Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI's parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted from "an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning." The issues initially appeared to be linked because they coincided--perhaps the result of a shared third-party service provider--but neither OpenAI nor Anthropic cited an external source in comments to WIRED on Thursday. SpaceX, xAI's parent company, did not respond to WIRED's request for comment.

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