ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

The artificial intelligence (AI) company has acknowledged there is a problem and is working to resolve the issue after a huge spike in reported disruptions. View on euronews

Multiple users reported issues with OpenAI on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. By 6:45 a.m. more than 4,000 people reported issues with the service to Downdetector, more than 90% of which indicated problems with ChatGPT.

While outages and disruption in services are common for internet services, ChatGPT has experienced downtimes frequently over the last few weeks. In December, ChatGPT was hit by a massive outage in the US, resulting in glitches in additional OpenAI services, as well.

GenAI chatbot ChatGPT is currently down globally, leaving users who have grown accustomed to quick fixes from the chatbot in a frenzy.

SINGAPORE: Thousands of users worldwide reported issues with OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday (Jan 23). Outage tracking site Downdetector.com received over 550 OpenAI outage reports from users in Singapore at around 7.

ChatGPT launched in the fall of 2022 and quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software. The base version is free, but some users pay as much as $200 a month for the service. Around 300 million people use OpenAI's chatbot every week, and the chatbot handles more than 1 billion messages a day.

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

Downdetector, a website that tracks online ... Attempts to open the artificial intelligence tool developed by OpenAI on Thursday morning briefly resulted in a lengthy attempt to load the webpage ...

ChatGPT experienced an unplanned outage today, January 23, 2025, affecting users in the U.S., U.K and around the world. Reports started to emerge on outage-tracking site DownDetector and across social media at around 4am PT/ 7am ET/ 12pm GMT with no official word from parent company OpenAI on what the cause is.

Thousands of users were unable to access OpenAI’s chatbot starting around 6 a.m. on Thursday. Shortly after 10 a.m., the company said the issue had been resolved.

Downdetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, has registered a significant spike in outage reports for ChatGPT within the last hour. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has yet to release an official statement addressing the issue.