OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API are experiencing a serious outage, in keeping with the corporate’s standing web page. The corporate says it’s recognized a pathway to restoration and is engaged on a repair as of 4:55pm PT Wednesday night.
It stays unclear what the reason for the outage is. OpenAI stated ChatGPT, the API, and Sora are slowly coming again on-line, in keeping with an replace posted to its standing web page round 7pm PT. OpenAI first began investigating this outage round 3:17pm PT.
“ChatGPT is currently unavailable,” reads an error message that seems when visiting ChatGPT.com. “We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix.”
The ChatGPT outage comes on the identical day that OpenAI launched its integration with Apple in iOS 18.2, which might have prompted an inflow of visitors on the corporate’s servers. Some customers reported on social media that ChatGPT was not working in Apple Intelligence due to the downtime on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, OpenAI additionally launched Sora publicly. CEO Sam Altman stated the startup didn’t anticipate the quantity of curiosity it will obtain, and needed to restrict the variety of customers that would join. Many customers who did join had been unable to generate movies on launch day, receiving a message that OpenAI’s servers had been at capability.
The outage additionally follows one other international service interruption to Meta’s merchandise early Wednesday. It’s unclear if these outages had been associated.
This outage for OpenAI’s merchandise falls on day 5 of the corporate’s “12 days of shipmas” occasion, the place the corporate has shipped new merchandise on a regular basis main up the vacation season. To date in this system, OpenAI has introduced the total launch of its o1 reasoning mannequin, a reinforcement fine-tuning analysis program, the launch of Sora, some updates to Canvas, and the Apple Intelligence integration.
OpenAI referred TechCrunch to a tweet from its official X account after we reached out for remark.
