At round 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, December twenty sixth, ChatGPT went down for customers worldwide. As OpenAI famous on its standing web page, customers began experiencing excessive error charges on ChatGPT, its API, and Sora. After a brief investigation interval, OpenAI decided the difficulty was being brought on by an upstream supplier.
The standing web page reveals that ChatGPT and the corporate’s API companies are experiencing what it calls a “main outage,” whereas Sora is coping with a “partial outage.”
This isn’t the primary outage that OpenAI has handled in latest weeks, however it’s among the many most severe. On Friday, December twentieth, customers skilled elevated error charges with Dall-E and the Moderation API. At some point earlier, customers have been additionally failing to enroll utilizing their usernames and passwords or obtain verification emails when logging into ChatGPT.
Based on Downdetector, stories started spiking round 10:15 a.m. PT. The excellent news is that these stories took a precipitous drop after 11:00 a.m. PT, which is when the official investigation kicked off. As of 12:51 p.m. PT, I’m nonetheless unable to make use of ChatGPT.
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We’ll replace this put up when OpenAI shares extra data.
