At around 9:23 AM Eastern Time on September 3rd, the global artificial intelligence industry experienced a rare major incident. Several leading AI services abroad, including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, collectively encountered failures and were largely paralyzed.
This sudden large-scale outage lasted approximately 3 hours and 40 minutes, causing temporary inconvenience for many overseas users in their daily work and technical operations. In stark contrast to the widespread failure of overseas large models, domestic artificial intelligence large models remained smoothly and efficiently operational during the same period.
In particular, Zhipu, a leading domestic AI company, publicly posted a humorous statement on a social media platform expressing "We are still online," demonstrating strong underlying technological resilience and infrastructure capacity.