It looks like the outage started around 1:30PM ET, which is when reports began to spike on Down Detector. At 2PM ET, OpenAI posted an update to its status page, saying ChatGPT, the API, and its text-to-video generator Sora are “currently experiencing high error rates.”

OpenAI is working to fix an issue that caused major outages in its applications, including ChatGPT. A statement from the artificial intelligence (AI) company, posted on social media platform, X, just after 4 p.m. Thursday, noted "most" of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora were down Thursday afternoon.

ChatGPT experienced a major outage on Thursday, according to OpenAI. The outage began around 1:30 p.m., according to user reports on Downdetector. The outage lasted for several hours. By the evening,

Major global outage hits OpenAI. Highest severity for ChatGPT and API service while Sora is only partially affected.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora video generator are currently experiencing an outage that has made them inaccessible for many users. The issue also affects the application programming interfaces that developers use to integrate the company’s technology into their software.

EST, the outages tracking website, showed that there were over 15,000 reports of OpenAI not working with a majority, 92 percent, saying the problems were directly related to ChatGPT. The live outage map shows issues occurring across the country,

OpenAI’s widely used chatbot, ChatGPT, faced a significant outage on Thursday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform. The disruption sparked widespread reports of errors and downtime.

ChatGPT has gone down a few times in the past several months. Just days after OpenAI released Sora to ChatGPT subs