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TL;DR
- ChatGPT was down for a number of hours earlier right now.
- The corporate is investigating what occurred and has promised to share a public postmortem of the occasion.
- ChatGPT additionally bought a brand new characteristic whereas the outage was underway.
ChatGPT is now again up after an outage that lasted over three hours earlier right now. Folks had been unable to make use of the chatbot, leading to spikes on DownDetector in addition to a flood of stories on X (previously Twitter).
“The underlying difficulty is because of a difficulty with our database replicas. ChatGPT and non-completion API endpoints are partially impacted, whereas completion API endpoints, together with chat completions, are solely minimally impacted,” OpenAI wrote on its standing web page throughout the outage.
The corporate says it’ll share a “public postmortem” of what occurred and the way it’ll forestall comparable points sooner or later.
“We’re again up and all the pieces must be working as anticipated,” OpenAI introduced at round 8:46 PM ET. Nevertheless, a fast search on X reveals some persons are nonetheless experiencing disruptions within the service. Whereas many customers are reporting that ChatGPT is again up and working for them, It appears the service continues to be down for some customers. Hopefully, issues will stabilize within the subsequent few hours.
The ChatGPT outage occurred virtually concurrently as OpenAI introduced that its voice search characteristic is now accessible to everybody free of charge. Beforehand, the characteristic was solely accessible to paying customers.
After all, the company drama regarding the management on the firm continues to fester within the backdrop of all this. The newest that we hear within the Sam Altman saga is that members of the OpenAI board, Altman, and the corporate’s interim chief govt Emmet Shear have opened negotiations to probably get Altman again to the corporate.