Grok Hit by Multi-Day Outage Affecting Free and Paid Users — xAI Status Page Says 'Operational'

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Grok has been experiencing a widespread outage since April 21, with 813+ user-submitted reports in the past 24 hours across the US, UK, and Germany affecting both free and paid tiers. Users see 'Grok is under high demand' errors but xAI's official status page shows 'Service fully operational' with no declared incident. The timing coincides with new feature rollouts (custom templates, video extensions) and a reported SpaceX-Cursor deal that may have redirected GPU capacity from inference to training.