Outage recap · xAI

Grok outage — October 23, 2026

On October 23, 2026, Grok had a reported incident on xAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Degraded Model Performance

minor
Started
Oct 23, 8:03 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 23, 8:04 PM EDT
Duration
1 min

xAI's updates (2)

  1. investigating · Oct 23, 8:03 PM EDT

    We are currently investigating some degraded model performance.

  2. resolved · Oct 23, 8:04 PM EDT

    We have identified and resolved the issue.

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The AI cascade

Grok depends on xAI. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit Grok alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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Is Grok down right now? →Grok status history →

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