{"id":589161,"date":"2026-09-03T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:26:08","slug":"four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589161\/","title":{"rendered":"Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/status.claude.com\/incidents\/461yvfrzpwtt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> a \u201cpartial outage\u201d related to \u201celevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5\u201d at 9:23 am (all times Eastern). The company reported that it had \u201cidentified the cause\u201d of the error roughly 15 minutes later, before reporting that \u201ca fix has been deployed\u201d and the issue was resolved by 12:16 pm. A <a href=\"https:\/\/status.claude.com\/incidents\/288w7p4hk1l1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">separate incident report<\/a> indicated \u201celevated errors on requests to Claude Sonnet 5\u201d for a brief period just after noon.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/status.openai.com\/incidents\/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> \u201celevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex\u201d were resulting in \u201cdegraded performance\u201d as of 10:43 am Thursday morning. A mitigation put in place a little more than half an hour later led to the issue being marked as \u201cresolved\u201d by 12:55 pm.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, xAI\u2019s Grok currently displays a user-facing error message that the model \u201cis experiencing issues\u201d and that the company is \u201cworking on restoring service as quickly as possible.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/grok\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">User-submitted reports from DownDetector<\/a> regarding Grok shot up from less than 10 just before 9 am to 1,365 by 9:45 am and have fallen to 273 as of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-589161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}