ChatGPT Downtime Leaves Millions Stranded, Businesses Affected
ChatGPT experiences global outage, impacting millions of users and businesses. OpenAI confirms issues with API and services, causing widespread disruption
Millions of users across the globe were left stranded and businesses that rely on OpenAI's API for their projects were affected as the world’s most popular AI tool, ChatGPT, experienced downtime on Thursday. This is the second time in recent months that ChatGPT has experienced downtime with a global outage earlier in December 2024.
The outage has also impacted OpenAI's API and other services, causing widespread disruption. OpenAI confirmed via X that there were problems with the service. However, the outage has only been going on for some time as there have been thousands of reports of a problem since 12:30 am. At the time of writing, no further message was published on X. It is possible that it will end soon.
With an estimated 123 million daily active users, ChatGPT has become one of the most widely used generative AI applications globally. Initially released in late 2022, the tool quickly gained traction, amassing over one million users within 24 hours of launch.
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