Yandex says Alice AI ran normally through the September 3 global AI outage
Yandex
While ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok suffered near-simultaneous outages on September 3, Yandex told TASS that its Alice AI chat 'continues working without interruption'. GigaChat was also reported as unaffected.
Why it matters
A rare head-to-head reliability datapoint: on the day several Western frontier assistants wobbled, Russia's two main consumer AI assistants stayed up — modest marketing value for Yandex and Sber, but also confirmation that the outage had no Russian-lab component.
Importance: 1/5
Mention: confirmation footnote to the global outage story