ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence-powered bot, experienced outages early Thursday morning, according to tech giant OpenAI.
Attempts to connect to the site received error messages before dawn Thursday Eastern Standard Time.
OpenAI’s status page said it had received multiple reports of “high error rates” affecting ChatGPT as well as the API, the company’s cloud interface that allows developers to access data models. advanced enterprise AI.
“We are currently seeing high error rates in the API. We are currently investigating,” OpenAI wrote in a status message posted shortly before 4 a.m. PT on Thursday.
A little over half an hour later, OpenAI wrote: “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. »
At 4:43 a.m. PT, OpenAI wrote: “This issue is now resolved. Between 3:33 a.m. and 4:23 a.m. PST, customers experienced high error rates on ChatGPT and the API.
The Post requested comment from OpenAI.
ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, is an advanced AI chatbot that enables natural language interactions.
It quickly became the fastest growing consumer software, reaching 100 million users in two months and now processes over a billion messages per day with 300 million weekly active users.
The robot is widely used in various sectors, including education, where 26% of adolescents used it for homework in 2024.
Despite its success, it faces challenges such as accuracy issues and competition from other AI models.
