India, June 18 -- Shortly after users on Thursday reported an outage for Claude, the artificial intelligence engine, Anthropic has issued a statement. The tech company noted that certain services have been impacted due to a "partial outage".

"We have identified the cause of the issue affecting Claude.ai and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible," the company wrote regarding the Claude outage.

The outage came to light after several users complained they could not use the AI engine's chatbot, app, or website. This outage was also reflected in a spark spike on Downdetector.

Based on the website, around 63 per cent of users have reported a problem with Claude chat, 24 per cent for the app and 10 per cent for t...