A company status page showed ChatGPT and the company’s application programming interface (API) experiencing a “major” outage, while Sora had a “partial” outage. More than 12,000 people reported OpenAI-related in the last 24 hours, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is experiencing an outage on Thursday afternoon. According to Downdector.com, thousands of users have reported outages after a surge in reports beginning around 10:20 a.

On December 26, 2024, ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, experienced a widespread outage, preventing users from accessing the service. The issue affected both the international and Spanish versions of the service, according to Downdetector.com.

ChatGPT stopped functioning for many users on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. The app was recovering several hours later, the San Francisco-based company said.

More than 50,000 outages have been reported for ChatGPT on Downdetector.com after a surge in reports around 1:30 p.m EST. The outage appeared to persist beyond 3:30 p.m. EST. OpenAI did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment about the status of its chatbot.