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OpenAI Faces Widespread Outage Affecting ChatGPT and Sora Services

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sora image generator faced a significant outage on Tuesday, impacting user access and causing elevated error rates and latency.


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  • On Tuesday, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sora image generator experienced a widespread outage, affecting user access significantly.
  • The outage resulted in elevated error rates and latency for users accessing ChatGPT services and APIs.
  • OpenAI has identified the root cause of the outage and is actively working to restore full service.
  • The company previously struggled to scale its services to accommodate hundreds of millions of users, leading to these issues.
  • Users are advised to remain patient as OpenAI works to resolve the ongoing service disruptions.

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Is ChatGPT down right now? ChatGPT experiencing 'partial outage'
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"…ChatGPT, the chatbot service developed by OpenAI, is experiencing a "partial outage" that is causing disruptions on the platform as of June 10."

OpenAI tools ChatGPT, Sora image generator are down
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"…The widespread outage had persisted for about six hours as of around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, according to OpenAI, which acknowledged in a statement on its site that it is "experiencing issues.""

Is ChatGPT Down for You, Too? Widespread Outage Continues to Grow
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"…OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage Tuesday morning that's affecting its ChatGPT AI chatbot service, as well as its Sora tool for AI-generated videos."

ChatGPT is having a partial outage
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"…Tuesday’s partial outage is notably long in duration."

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