According to OpenAI’s status page, a significant outage began at approximately 3 p.m. PT on Wednesday, affecting ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API. As of 9 p.m. PT, the company claims to be mostly back online.
In a tweet, OpenAI stated, “ChatGPT, API, and Sora were down today, but we’ve recovered.”
The cause of the outage is still unknown. Around 7 p.m. PT, OpenAI announced on their status page that ChatGPT, the API, and Sora were gradually returning to the internet.
During the downtime, ChatGPT.com displayed an error message that said, “ChatGPT is currently unavailable.” “We’ve located the problem and are attempting to implement a solution.”
On the same day that OpenAI’s interface with Apple was introduced in iOS 18.2, ChatGPT went down. Due to Wednesday’s outage, some users complained on social media that ChatGPT was not functioning in Apple Intelligence.
In a post on X, Edwin Arbus, the leader of the OpenAI developer community, stated that the downtime had nothing to do with Apple Intelligence or 12 Days of OpenAI. “We changed the configuration, which made a lot of servers unavailable.”
OpenAI also made Sora available to the public earlier this week. According to CEO Sam Altman, the business had to restrict the number of individuals who could join up since it didn’t foresee the volume of interest it would attract. On launch day, a large number of users who had registered were unable to create films because OpenAI’s servers were full.
The disruption comes after Meta’s products had another worldwide service failure early on Wednesday.
This product outage occurs on the fifth day of OpenAI’s “12 days of OpenAI” event, during which the firm has been shipping new products every day in the run-up to the holidays. OpenAI has so far announced the complete release of its o1 reasoning model, a research program focused on fine-tuning reinforcement, the release of Sora, certain Canvas upgrades, and the interface with Apple Intelligence.
When we contacted OpenAI for comment, the company pointed TechCrunch to a tweet from its official X account.