OpenAI’s ChatGPT Service Experiences Major Outage
OpenAI’s ChatGPT service, which boasts 100 million weekly active users, is currently down and inaccessible. The outage began shortly before 9AM ET / 6AM PT and has persisted for nearly an hour. Users attempting to access the service are met with a message stating, “ChatGPT is at capacity right now.”
The company has confirmed that it is experiencing a major outage affecting both its API services and ChatGPT. OpenAI has stated, “We have identified an issue resulting in high error rates across the API and ChatGPT, and we are working on remediation.”
This recent outage comes on the heels of a partial outage that occurred last night, impacting both ChatGPT and API services for a few hours. This is a significant development, as ChatGPT had not encountered any significant issues for months and has been one of the fastest-growing AI-powered services to date.
Just yesterday, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4 Turbo and the ability for users to create their own version of ChatGPT. These new features will be available to paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers and OpenAI enterprise customers, who can create internal-only versions of ChatGPT for their employees.
OpenAI held its first developer conference earlier this week, signaling its commitment to expanding and improving its AI services. Users are eagerly awaiting the resolution of the current outage and the restoration of access to the popular ChatGPT service.