OpenAI’s ChatGPT service went down for a few hours early Tuesday morning because of an issue.
The service then went down again during the day in the US.
OpenAI wrote in its status message that ChatGPT was down for some users.
“This problem is being looked into right now.”
Around 10:30 a.m. ET, the second round of problems began, and Downdetector saw thousands of reports of them.
On the web service and in many mobile apps, users of ChatGPT were not seeing answers.
However, at 1:17PM ET, OpenAI stated that the problem had been fixed.
Some users said they were having trouble with Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude AI, and Perplexity AI web search around the same time that ChatGPT did.
Google Gemini seems to be widely available, and it didn’t take long for people to be able to get to Claude again.
By 1:30 p.m. ET, Perplexity reported that its AI search tool was also back up and running.
For about 90 minutes in November,
ChatGPT and OpenAI’s API services were both down.
This was the last big outage that happened to the service.
The API doesn’t seem to be harmed by this new problem.
Later, OpenAI said that the November failure was caused by a DDoS attack.
Last month, a Microsoft failure shut down both the ChatGPT search tools and Microsoft’s own Copilot service.
Changed on June 4th: Notified that access to ChatGPT has been restored and added reports of problems with other AI tools.