ChatGPT Sora and OpenAI's developer-facing API were down for more than four hours on Thursday. OpenAI says it began experiencing a major outage at 11 am PT, but now says its services are slowly coming back online as of 3:16 pm PT. Frequent users of ChatGPT may recognize the service. It dropped earlier this month. well.
TechCrunch received error messages when trying to access ChatGPT and Sora on Thursday afternoon.
on its Status pageOpenAI said the massive outage was caused by one of their upstream providers, but details were not disclosed. at 2:05 PM PT; OpenAI said that ChatGPT has partially recovered, but users may still have problems accessing their chat history. At 3:16 PM, Sora started running again. The company is said to be actively working on full development of ChatGPT and its API.
OpenAI's family of services has dropped for the second time in December. When OpenAI happened two weeks ago, Blame the outage on a new telemetry service that went haywire. The outage lasted about 6 hours, an unusually long outage. Typically, This outage only lasts an hour or two.
Popular services that use OpenAI's API Confused and Siri's Apple Intelligence According to the companies' respective status pages and TechCrunch's tests, the integration does not appear to have been affected by the outage.
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