Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude experienced a brief surge in outage reports Tuesday evening, as users flagged problems with its chat function and website.
Around 6:45 p.m. EST, more than 2,400 outage reports were logged on Downdetector. The number quickly dropped to fewer than 100 within an hour, suggesting the disruption was temporary.
According to Claude’s official status page, the assistant faced “periods of high error rates” related to a skills-based service used by both its chat system and desktop app.
Downdetector data showed:
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39% of reported issues involved the chat feature
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28% were tied to the website
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28% related to the mobile app
Despite the spike in reports, some users were still able to access Claude during the disruption.
The brief outage occurred just hours after Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest version of the model, which the company says improves performance in coding, design and computer-based tasks.
Anthropic, now valued at $380 billion following a recent $30 billion funding round, has not yet commented on the incident.
Service interruptions are not uncommon in the AI sector. Competitors including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and xAI’s Grok have also experienced periodic outages in recent years.
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