ChatGPT and Sora are down

OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora and its developer API are experiencing a serious outage, in accordance with the corporate’s standing web page. The corporate says it has recognized a restoration path and is engaged on a repair as of 4:55 p.m. PT Wednesday night.

It’s nonetheless unclear what triggered the outage. As of 5:50 p.m. PT, OpenAI mentioned visitors to ChatGPT and its API had partially recovered, however Sora remained down, in accordance with an replace posted to its standing web page. TechCrunch was nonetheless unable to entry ChatGPT as of 6:30 p.m. PT, greater than 4 hours after OpenAI started investigating the outage.

“ChatGPT is at present unavailable,” reads an error message that seems when visiting ChatGPT.com. “We have now recognized the problem and are working to deploy a repair.”

ChatGPT outage comes on similar day as OpenAI launched its integration with Apple in iOS 18.2which may have triggered an inflow of visitors on the corporate’s servers. Some customers reported on social media that ChatGPT did not work in Apple Intelligence due to Wednesday’s downtime.

Earlier this week, OpenAI additionally launched Sora publicly. CEO Sam Altman mentioned the startup did not predict how a lot curiosity it will obtain and needed to restrict the variety of customers who may enroll. Many customers who signed up had been unable to generate movies on launch day and acquired a message that OpenAI’s servers had been at capability.

The outage additionally follows one other Meta product service interruption early Wednesday. It’s unclear whether or not these outages had been associated.

This OpenAI product outage falls on the fifth day of the corporate’s “12 Days of Transport” occasion, throughout which the corporate shipped new merchandise day by day main as much as the vacation season. Up to now in this system, OpenAI has introduced the complete launch of its reasoning model o1a analysis program to develop reinforcement, the Sora’s exitsome updates to Canvas and Apple Intelligence integration.

OpenAI referred TechCrunch to a tweet from his official X account once we requested for remark.