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 much-used ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot is down, with scores of social media users reporting complaints. Others noted issues with OpenAI’s Sora video-generation model. “We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT,

OpenAI has confirmed it is working to restore access to a number of its services including its popular ChatGPT service, its APIs and Sora. OpenAI said it has found the cause for the issue and have started recovery.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has confirmed it is investigating issues that users are experiencing with the AI as it fails to work for many