‘We’ve recovered’: OpenAI’s ChatGPT back online after several hours of outage

Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT by OpenAI is back online after a downtime of several hours on Thursday morning. ChatGPT’s services were unavailable for over three hours in the morning for users across the globe. 

Millions of users, including premium subscribers of ChatGPT services were unable to access the AI chatbot services from about 7am in the morning on Thursday. Besides ChatGPT, services of OpenAI’s API and Sora were also down. In an X update about five hours ago, OpenAI said, “We're experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix. Sorry and we'll keep you updated!”

Users were soon to respond to the tweet, with many users saying they were annoyed over the outage. Many users expressed displeasure over having to face downtime despite paying a premium for the chatbot’s services. A user said, “This always happens and I still can’t even use Sora. Annoyed.” While one user jokingly mentioned, “The world has stopped spinning”, another said, “Hurry because I am dying right now. How did I live without this before.”

However,  in a recent update, openAI said its services are back online. “ChatGPT, API, and Sora were down today but we've recovered,” it said in a post on X.

Meta-owned apps Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp were globally on Wednesday and the company apologised to users for the inconvenience. Meta’s apps were down for users across the UK, US, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America on Wednesday, with several users facing issues with refreshing their social media feed.