OpenAI says ChatGPT service has recovered after hours-long outage

• OpenAI’s outage on Wednesday left users unable to access ChatGPT or the Sora video generator.
• Earlier in the day, OpenAI said Apple was releasing an integration of ChatGPT into the iPhone’s iOS operating system.

OpenAI said in an early Thursday X post that its popular ChatGPT assistant, Sora video generator and programming interface for software developers were working again after hours of downtime.

ChatGPT has hit the mainstream. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said on December 4 that the company’s technology was reaching 300 million active users each week. On Wednesday, Apple released new versions of its software for the iPhone, iPad and Mac that bring integrations with ChatGPT.

According to an OpenAI status page, ChatGPT was down for just over four hours. An outage in June lasted for over five hours.

OpenAI was valued at $157 billion in a funding round in October that included participation from existing backer Microsoft as well as chipmaker Nvidia. The company’s rapid ascent began with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and has been the biggest story in the tech industry over the last couple years.

On Monday OpenAI said it was releasing Sora to people in the U.S. and most other countries, but on Tuesday, Altman wrote on X that “we significantly underestimated demand for sora; it is going to take awhile to get everyone access.”

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