Claude AI is experiencing widespread outages, with users reporting failures in chat responses, Claude Code, and login issues across the platform.
Thousands took to social media and Downdetector to complain that Anthropic's AI assistant was unresponsive or throwing errors.
Reports of issues began around 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, with nearly 2,500 outage reports logged by 2 p.m., mostly related to chat, code functionality, and the app.
Users shared error messages indicating server-side failures, including repeated 'API Error: 500 – Internal server error' notifications while using Claude Code.
Claude AI is a family of advanced AI models developed by Anthropic, designed to be helpful, honest, and safe, using a technique known as Constitutional AI.
It is widely used for coding, writing, data analysis, and complex reasoning tasks, available via web and mobile apps, APIs, and enterprise offerings.
