ChatGPT went down for all customers on Tuesday morning on account of a flurry of main outages, based on OpenAI’s status page. There have been two distinct outages, the primary of which started round 3 a.m. ET and a second round 10:30 am ET, however the app now seems to be operational. It’s unclear at the moment what the reason for the outage was.
“We skilled a significant outage impacting all customers on all plans of ChatGPT. The influence included all ChatGPT associated companies,” OpenAI stated on its standing web page Tuesday morning. The corporate marked the problem as “resolved” as of 1 pm ET.
Outages spiked on DownDetector round 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday as hundreds of customers reported points with ChatGPT. Round 3 a.m. ET, DownDetector confirmed a smaller spike in user-reported points. OpenAI’s API companies seemed to be unaffected by Tuesday’s outage.
A number of Gizmodo staffers have been unable to entry ChatGPT as of 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning. The ChatGPT webpage was struggling to load, and the service wouldn’t permit prompts to be entered. OpenAI later famous that customers nonetheless having points could must carry out a “onerous refresh” so as to get the ChatGPT web site working once more.
ChatGPT is having a number of outages proper as West Coasters are doubtless simply waking up, and East Coasters are properly into their work day. OpenAI’s outages have turn out to be considerably widespread, which makes it tough for folks to depend on ChatGPT of their workdays. OpenAI’s standing web page reveals greater than a dozen outages within the final 90 days, nonetheless, they’re usually resolved in lower than an hour.
These outages come simply weeks after OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni, a barely extra highly effective AI mannequin that can finally be free for all customers. OpenAI claims the free model of ChatGPT has roughly 100 million weekly lively customers, which raises important compute issues. It’s unclear at the moment if this outage is expounded to any replace.
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