SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'

Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time. SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other ‘compute partners’. News AI SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other ‘compute partners’ Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time.

The company issued a brief apology to Grok users, as well as to unnamed "compute partners" who were also apparently affected by the issues. "We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning," the company wrote. We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.

All systems have now been restored and are functioning nominally. — SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) September 3, 2026 Grok was down for three and a half hours, beginning at 6:30AM PT, according to a company status page. The incident, which is labeled as "models outage" on the company’s website apparently affected Grok on X as well as its Android and iOS apps.