OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage on Thursday.
Early this morning, ChatGPT users began reporting issues accessing ChatGPT on the web and other platforms. According to ChatGPT status page on the OpenAI website OpenAI confirmed the issue at 5:12 a.m. PT and identified the root cause a little under an hour later.
“[We] are currently working to implement the fix,” reads a note on the state’s website posted at 5:43 a.m. According to a more recent note posted at 7:09 a.m., OpenAI has implemented a fix and is “monitoring the results.”
At the time of publication, this reporter was able to log into ChatGPT online.
The OpenAI API also had some downtime this morning, but OpenAI says that in: message to solve this.
It is occasional for ChatGPT to be down for many hours. But this has happened before, actually recently.
In December, ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, experienced major disruptions. OpenAI noticed the problem shortly thereafter and started working on solving it. But it would take the company about three hours to restore all the tools.
OpenAI later blamed this failure on bugs in its novel telemetry service.