OpenAI Outage: ChatGPT and Sora Experience Extended Downtime
On Thursday, frequent users of ChatGPT and Sora faced a frustrating disruption as OpenAI’s services experienced significant downtime. The outage began at 11 a.m. PT and persisted for over four hours, with services gradually coming back online by 3:16 p.m. PT.
This isn’t the first time users have encountered such disruptions. Earlier this month, ChatGPT experienced similar issues. TechCrunch noted receiving error messages while attempting to access both ChatGPT and Sora during the outage.
- OpenAI reported the issue on their status page, attributing it to one of their upstream providers but provided no further details.
- By 2:05 p.m. PT, partial recovery was noted for ChatGPT, though some users still faced challenges accessing their chat history.
- As of 3:16 p.m. PT, Sora was back online.
“This is the second outage this December,” OpenAI noted, recalling a previous disruption caused by a malfunctioning telemetry service that lasted around six hours.
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Interestingly, popular services utilizing OpenAI’s API, such as Perplexity and Siri’s Apple Intelligence integration, were reportedly unaffected by this incident according to their respective status pages and TechCrunch’s tests.
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