India, Aug. 5 -- Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude on Wednesday faced an outage, leading to users experiencing challenges in accessing the service, as reports of disruptions increased on social media.

Downdetector, a platform that monitors online service outages by gathering user-submitted reports, indicated a significant rise in user complaints, suggesting extensive problems for Claude users. The outage seemed to affect various iterations of Anthropic's most recent Claude models.

In a recent update on its status page, Anthropic announced that it has pinpointed the source of the problem and is actively working to restore service.

"We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5,...