esterday, according to OpenAI company, its ChatGPT and Sora services experienced significant service issues at around 3 pm PT.
“We're experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix.”, OpenAI stated in a post on X social media platform.
During the ChatGPT and Sora AI outage, an error message appeared when users tried to access the artificial intelligence chatbot website.
“ChatGPT is currently unavailable,”, as seen by users.
Later that Wednesday, OpenAI managed to fix all the issues recorded about the ChatGPT and Sora AI outage, and announced in a later edit that ChatGPT along with AI Sora can now be used by all users.
“ChatGPT, API, and Sora were down today but we’ve recovered,”, the company stated.
This ChatGPT outage comes at an unfortunate time, the same day that OpeanAI launched its Apple Intelligence integration in the new version of iOS 18.2. It is believed that this launch caused a higher user flux than expected and managed to have an effect on the company’s servers.
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It should be mentioned that some users have declared on their social media accounts that they were unable to use the ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence due to this Wednesday's ChatGPT outage.
But according to the community lead Edwin Arbus “The OpenAI outage was unrelated to 12 Days of OpenAI or Apple Intelligence. We made a config change that caused many servers to become unavailable.”
Also, this week OpenAI officially launched the Sora AI for public use. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stated that they didn’t expect that this new service would gain so much interest from users, and in consequence, the company had to limit the sign-ups in order to run properly.
However, even those users who successfully signed up were unable to generate videos on the day of launch, and many of them received a message that stated that all OpenAI servers were running at maximum capacity.
We have to admit that it is a little bit unusual that OpenAI and Meta experienced a major outage on the same day, even though each of these companies blamed the global outage based on technical and server issues, we should wait for more detailed information.
Stay tuned for more updates!
By
George King
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December 12, 2024 8:00 AM