Home Industry Technology ChatGPT suffers fresh outage as downtime reports spike This marks the second time in recent months that ChatGPT has experienced downtime by Gareth van Zyl January 23, 2025 UPDATE: OpenAI says all its systems are operational again after a brief outage occurred The world’s most popular AI tool, ChatGPT, experienced brief downtime on Thursday afternoon, according to website outage reporting tool Downdetector.com. At the time of writing, OpenAI has not disclosed the reasons for the outage. This marks the second time in recent months that ChatGPT has experienced downtime. On December 12, 2024, an outage impacted OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI model, which enables users to create videos from text prompts. In a recent update regarding the outage on Thursday afternoon, OpenAI said: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” OpenAI’s operating status indicated an elevated level of error reporting on Thursday afternoon. READ MORE: ChatGPT experiences global outage as OpenAI works on fix A message that appeared on some ChatGPT users’ screens on Thursday afternoon. With an estimated 123 million daily active users, ChatGPT has become one of the most widely used generative AI applications globally. Initially released in late 2022, the tool quickly gained traction, amassing over one million users within 24 hours of launch. Downdetector.com reported a spike in outage reports on Thursday afternoon. *This is a developing story. Tags ChatGPT downtime OpenAI You might also like ChatGPT experiences global outage as OpenAI works on fix OpenAI secures $6.6bn investment from UAE’s MGX, Nvidia Abu Dhabi tech investment firm MGX in talks to invest in OpenAI: WSJ reports OpenAI enters Google-dominated search market with SearchGPT
