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.

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.

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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.

ChatGPT stopped functioning for many users on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. The app recovered several hours later, the San Francisco-based company said.

EST, the outages tracking website, showed that there were over 15,000 reports of OpenAI not working with a majority, 92 percent, saying the problems were directly related to ChatGPT. The live outage map shows issues occurring across the country,

OpenAI’s widely used chatbot, ChatGPT, faced a significant outage on Thursday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform. The disruption sparked widespread reports of errors and downtime.