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OpenAI reports ChatGPT is experiencing severe outages [updated]

Posted by Tim Hardwick

Update: OpenAI's status page states that the first issue was resolved at 4:45 a.m. PT, but service issues are still occurring.

ChatGPT OpenAI The chatbot is currently experiencing a major outage that is making the generative AI service unavailable for “some users,” according to the company's system status page.


ChatGPT has been down for several hours, the chatbot is unable to respond to requests via the web and mobile applications due to an internal server error. The company says it first began working on the issue at 12:21 a.m. PT on June 4.

According to OpenAI, ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly users. Apple has reportedly struck a deal with OpenAI that will see ChatGPT used to power new features in iOS 18, the next major update to Apple's iPhone operating system, so similar glitches could potentially affect millions more users.

ChatGPT also partially went down last month when Microsoft's Bing API stopped working, leaving the chatbot and many other services unable to search the web.

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