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OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday.
Early this morning, ChatGPT users started reporting issues accessing ChatGPT on the web and other platforms. According to the ChatGPT status page on OpenAI’s website, OpenAI acknowledged the problem at 5:12 a.m. Pacific, and identified the root cause a little under an hour later.
“[We] are currently working to implement a fix,” reads a note on the status page posted at 5:43 a.m. Per a more recent note published at 7:09 a.m., OpenAI has implemented the fix and is “monitoring the results.”
OpenAI said on its website that it’s “continuing to monitor” for issues.Image Credits:OpenAIThis reporter was able to log into ChatGPT on the web as of publish time.
OpenAI’s API was also experiencing downtime this morning, but OpenAI claims in a message to have resolved it.
It’s rare that ChatGPT goes down for hours. But it has happened before — recently, in fact.
In December, ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, experienced major disruptions in service. OpenAI acknowledged the problem soon after and began working on a fix. But it’d take the company roughly three hours to restore all tools.
OpenAI later blamed that outage on bugs with a new telemetry service.
Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence. His writing has appeared in VentureBeat and Digital Trends, as well as a range of gadget blogs including Android Police, Android Authority, Droid-Life, and XDA-Developers. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, a piano educator, and dabbles in piano himself. occasionally — if mostly unsuccessfully.
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