ChatGPT stopped functioning for a lot of customers on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. The app recovered a number of hours later, the San Francisco-based firm stated.

The synthetic intelligence firm stated in an replace to its standing web page late Thursday night time that ChatGPT had achieved a “full restoration” by 11:16 p.m. Jap Time. 

“OpenAI will run a full root-cause evaluation of this outage and can share particulars on this web page when full,” OpenAI stated. 

The corporate had earlier stated that Sora, its video technology mannequin, in addition to its automated software programming interface — or API, which lets software program packages communicate to 1 one other — had been operational. However on Thursday night time it stated it was “at present investigating a separate incident relating to Sora,” however didn’t elaborate.  

Is ChatGPT down?

Greater than 15,000 incidents had been reported by OpenAI customers on Thursday afternoon, with a lot of the issues associated to ChatGPT, based on Downdetector, a web-based platform that gives customers with real-time details about the standing of assorted web sites and companies.

The technical glitches cropped up at about 1:30 p.m. Jap. The corporate initially posted, “ChatGPT, the API and Sora are at present experiencing excessive error charges. The problem is brought on by an upstream supplier and we’re at present monitoring.”

The variety of reviews dwindled to lower than 50 by late Thursday night time. 

Launched in 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service can generate human-like replies primarily based on consumer prompts, and as of late this summer season had greater than 200 million energetic customers.

Based on the corporate, a majority of Fortune 500 firms use OpenAI’s merchandise and its API.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is among the many tech leaders planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, a spokesperson confirmed earlier this month.