ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is experiencing an outage on Thursday afternoon. According to Downdector.com, thousands of users have reported outages after a surge in reports beginning around 10:20 a.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora video generator are currently experiencing an outage that has made them inaccessible for many users. The issue also affects the application programming interfaces that developers use to integrate the company’s technology into their software.

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By 3:16pm PT, OpenAI said its services were slowly coming back online. However, users could still face issues while attempting to access their chat history on ChatGPT. Sora was back online at the same time, according to the company's update. The firm is actively working toward a complete resolution for both ChatGPT and its API.

A company status page showed ChatGPT and the company’s application programming interface (API) experiencing a “major” outage, while Sora had a “partial” outage. More than 12,000 people reported OpenAI-related in the last 24 hours, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.