ChatGPTT, Open AI’s chatbot, backs up after brief outage affects thousands
More than 19,403 users were affected by the outage as of 7:13 p.m. ET (0013 GMT on Saturday), according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT is back after an outage that affected thousands of users, the company said on Friday.
“The issues with ChatGPT have now been resolved,” OpenAI said in a statement on its website.
OpenAI said access was restored for most users by 4:34 p.m. PT (0034 GMT on Saturday), adding that a small number of customers were experiencing problems as of 5 p.m. (0100 GMT on Saturday). Had to face.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on Twitter that ChatGPT was down for 30 minutes, adding a sad emoji, saying, “We’re much better than we were before in terms of reliability, but there’s clearly more ahead of us.” There’s more work.”
Outage tracking website DownDetector.com said ChatGPT’s services were down for about half an hour, affecting more than 19,403 users as of 7:13 pm ET (0013 GMT on Saturday).
Since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, it has attracted 250 million weekly active users. OpenAI’s valuation has risen by $14 billion to $157 billion in 2021 as revenue has climbed from zero to $3.6 billion, far exceeding Altman’s estimates at the time.
