ChatGPT back online after major outage: chatbot was unavailable for 90 minutes

By: Bohdan Kaminskyi | 08.11.2023, 20:20
ChatGPT back online after major outage: chatbot was unavailable for 90 minutes
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OpenAI's ChatGPT service has become available after an outage lasting more than 90 minutes. The problem affected 100 million weekly users of the chatbot and OpenAI's API services.

Here's What We Know

As reported by the company, there was a major system outage. At the time, users saw a message that ChatGPT was overloaded.

OpenAI representatives said that the malfunction has been eliminated. Specialists are monitoring to prevent new failures. It is noteworthy that the incident occurred a day after the temporary shutdown of some ChatGPT services and API.

The chatbot had already been working for a long time without serious problems. Over the year, ChatGPT's audience has grown to 100 million users per week. More than 2 million developers use the OpenAI API.

The day before, the company held a conference where it announced GPT-4 Turbo and personalised versions of ChatGPT for business. The new features are available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and enterprise customers.

Source: The Verge