India, May 20 -- Grok is down for thousands of users in the United States. According to DownDetector, outage reports began surfacing around 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, with users reporting issues affecting both the app and website.

Many users said they encountered the following error message: "Sorry about that, something didn't go as planned. Please try again, and if you're still seeing this message, go ahead and restart the app."

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