ChatGPT is back online after a crash

After OpenAI’s ChatGPT service crashed for several hours in the early morning hours, another major outage occurred in the US during the day. “ChatGPT is unavailable for some users,” OpenAI said in its statement Status message. “We are currently investigating this issue.” The second round of problems began around 10:30 a.m. EST, with thousands of reports of problems in Downdetector.

Many users of the ChatGPT mobile app and website did not see the response; however, at approximately 1:17 PM EST, OpenAI confirmed that the issue had been resolved.

Around the same time that ChatGPT was having problems, some users reported problems with Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude AI, and Perplexity AI’s web search engine. Google Gemini appears to be widely available and users were able to access Claude again quite quickly. By 1:30 PM ET, embarrassment confirmed that its AI search tool has also been restored.

The last major ChatGPT outage occurred in November, when the service was down for approximately 90 minutes, which also impacted OpenAI’s API services. The latest outage appears to have no impact on the API. OpenAI later revealed that the November outage was related to a DDoS attack.

Last month’s Microsoft outage also disabled ChatGPT’s search function, as well as the software giant’s own Copilot service.

June 4 update: It has been noted that current ChatGPT access has been restored and reports of issues with other AI tools have been added.