ChatGPT and Sora most recently sufferedmajor outages late last yearand in January but have been fairly stable since then.
Today’s issues, which were acknowledged byOpenAIon its status page, lasted roughly three hours.
OpenAI has not published any further details on the outage beyond the acknowledgment and mitigation measures.
It’s worth noting that the service is tracking all OpenAI services and not just ChatGPT.
However, most reports we’re seeing elsewhere only point to ChatGPT as the primary culprit.
The outage may not be global since our counterparts in the UK report no issues with processing prompts.
We’re seeing them on both the desktop and iOS app.
Reddit’s 1.6B users will then be on the case.
Thankfully, our chat history is still in place.
While a bit frustrating, it’s preferable to the models being completely unavailable.
Whatever OpenAI is doing, it comes off as working.
It quickly recovered but now we’re seeing Anthropic’s Claude users reporting service issues.
Not likely, but the coincidence is interesting and, for now, unexplained.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT is almost back to normal.
Plus, this outage, which appears nearly resolved, did not spread globally.
Multiple check-ins with our UK counterparts found a responsive ChatGPT service capable of instantly answering any prompt.
In fact, this outage didn’t even warrant a red bar.
There were outages in December 2024 and January of this year which were much more severe.
It’s over
According to OpenAI’s status page, there are no longer any issues.
TechRadar can confirm that ChatGPT is now functioning normally.
Now it’s time to get back to work with these penguins.
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