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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

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Why This Matters

The widespread outage of ChatGPT and related OpenAI services highlights the increasing reliance on AI-powered tools in the tech industry and for consumers. Such disruptions can impact productivity, innovation, and user trust, emphasizing the need for robust infrastructure and contingency planning. As AI services become more integral, ensuring their stability is crucial for maintaining industry growth and user confidence.

Key Takeaways

ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to load chats, including previous conversations.

The outage started at approximately 5 AM ET and is affecting users worldwide, including those in the US and Europe.

If you are affected, ChatGPT will get stuck at loading animations for the sidebar, and you won't be able to send messages due to "too many concurrent requests" errors.

ChatGPT is unable to load chats

Source: BleepingComputer

This outage also affects OpenAI's coding platform, Codex. Thankfully, OpenAI is aware of these issues and has already acknowledged them on the status page.

"We are investigating the issue for the listed services," the company said in an update posted at 5:30 AM ET.

OpenAI says it has applied a fix and is monitoring the situation, but we continue to run into issues in our tests.

The outage also affects the OpenAI API, with as many as 12 API endpoints listed as having issues on the company's status page.

This is a developing story.