ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it began experiencing a significant outage at 11 a.m. PT, and the companies nonetheless seem like down on the time of publishing this text, round 12:40 p.m. PT. Frequent customers of ChatGPT might recall that the service went down earlier this month as properly.
TechCrunch obtained error messages when making an attempt to entry ChatGPT and Sora on Thursday afternoon.
On its standing web page, OpenAI says the main outage was brought on by one in every of their upstream suppliers however doesn’t supply additional element. The firm says it’s actively engaged on a repair for the problem however doesn’t say when the companies shall be operational once more.
This is the second time that OpenAI’s household of companies have gone down throughout the month of December. When this occurred two weeks in the past, OpenAI blamed the outage on a brand new telemetry service gone awry. That outage lasted for roughly 6 hours, an unusually lengthy disruption. Typically, these outages final solely an hour or two.
Popular companies that use OpenAI’s API, like Perplexity and Siri’s Apple Intelligence integration, didn’t seem like affected by the outage, based on the businesses’ respective standing pages and TechCrunch’s testing.
