OpenAI Confirms Global ChatGPT Outage

OpenAI has confirmed a major disruption in ChatGPT's operation. According to Bleeping Computer, the problems began around 5 a.m. Eastern time on July 25 and affected users worldwide, including in the United States and Europe.

The symptoms were similar for everyone: the app hangs on the sidebar's loading animation, and any attempt to send a message returns a “too many concurrent requests” error. Previously saved conversations also became inaccessible.

The chatbot wasn't the only casualty

The outage reached beyond the familiar interface. It affected the Codex coding platform as well as OpenAI's API — up to twelve API endpoints were flagged as problematic on the company's status page. For developers whose services are built on top of OpenAI's infrastructure, that meant their own users felt the disruptions too.

The operator responded relatively quickly. In an update posted at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time, OpenAI said it was “investigating an issue with the listed services.” The company later stated that it had applied a fix and was monitoring the situation. However, according to the publication's observations, service was not fully restored during its checks — requests to the service were still ending in errors.

At the time of publication, the story remained developing, and the full scope and cause of the outage had not been officially disclosed.

Source: Bleeping Computer