OpenAI Experiences Another Service Outage: What’s Happening?
On Thursday, users of OpenAI’s popular services, including ChatGPT and Sora, found themselves facing a frustrating situation. Starting at 11 AM PT, a major outage affected these platforms, with the issue persisting for over an hour. By around 12:40 PM PT, the services were still down, leaving many wondering about the cause and resolution.
This isn’t the first time this month that OpenAI has faced such disruptions. Just a few weeks back, a similar incident occurred, attributed to a problematic telemetry service. That particular outage stretched on for about six hours, which was notably longer than the typical one or two-hour disruptions usually experienced.
“One of our upstream providers is at fault,” OpenAI noted on their status page, though further details remain scarce.
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While OpenAI is actively working on resolving the current issue, there’s no clear timeline for when normal operations will resume. Intriguingly, despite the widespread impact on core services like ChatGPT, other platforms utilizing OpenAI’s API—such as Perplexity and Siri’s Apple Intelligence integration—seemingly remained unaffected according to their respective status pages and TechCrunch’s independent tests.
- ChatGPT users reported error messages when trying to access the service.
- TechCrunch also encountered difficulties accessing both ChatGPT and Sora.
- OpenAI is yet to provide an estimated resolution time.
As OpenAI navigates these technical challenges, users are advised to stay updated through official channels. Hopefully, this ongoing commitment to fixing the issues will soon bring relief to those relying heavily on these innovative tools.
