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TL;DR
- ChatGPT was down for a number of hours earlier immediately.
- The corporate is investigating what occurred and has promised to share a public postmortem of the occasion.
- ChatGPT additionally received a brand new function whereas the outage was underway.
ChatGPT is now again up after an outage that lasted over three hours earlier immediately. Individuals have been unable to make use of the chatbot, leading to spikes on DownDetector in addition to a flood of studies on X (previously Twitter).
“The underlying situation is because of a difficulty with our database replicas. ChatGPT and non-completion API endpoints are partially impacted, whereas completion API endpoints, together with chat completions, are solely minimally impacted,” OpenAI wrote on its standing web page through the outage.
The corporate says it is going to share a “public postmortem” of what occurred and the way it’ll stop comparable points sooner or later.
“We’re again up and every part must be working as anticipated,” OpenAI introduced at round 8:46 PM ET. Nonetheless, a fast search on X reveals some persons are nonetheless experiencing disruptions within the service. Whereas many customers are reporting that ChatGPT is again up and operating for them, It appears the service remains to be down for some customers. Hopefully, issues will stabilize within the subsequent few hours.
The ChatGPT outage occurred virtually concurrently as OpenAI announced that its voice search function is now accessible to everybody totally free. Beforehand, the function was solely accessible to paying customers.
After all, the company drama regarding the management on the firm continues to fester within the backdrop of all this. The most recent that we hear within the Sam Altman saga is that members of the OpenAI board, Altman, and the corporate’s interim chief government Emmet Shear have opened negotiations to presumably get Altman again to the corporate.
