ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API experienced a significant outage on Thursday, lasting over four hours. OpenAI reported the issue began around 8 p.m. WAT, and services gradually started coming back online around midnight. This marks the second outage for ChatGPT this month.
During the downtime, InnovationVillage got error messages when trying to access ChatGPT. OpenAI’s status page attributed the outage to an issue with one of their upstream providers, though no additional details were provided. By 11:05 p.m. WAT, OpenAI stated that ChatGPT was partially recovered, though some users continued to experience issues with chat history. Sora was restored around midnight, with OpenAI noting that efforts to fully resolve the issues with ChatGPT and its API were ongoing.
This is the second time this month that OpenAI’s family of services have gone down. Two weeks ago, the downtime was for about 6 hours and OpenAi blamed it on a new telemetry service gone awry.
Google Gemini and Meta.ai were available during the outage.
