ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, experienced a second major outage on December 27th. According to DownDetector, a website that tracks online service outages, users began reporting problems around 1:30 PM Eastern Time (12:00 AM India Standard Time).
During the outage, ChatGPT reportedly shut down abruptly and stopped responding to user requests. The majority of those affected appear to be based in the United States. The cause of this outage remains unclear.
ChatGPT faces major outage
Reportedly, many US users complained that the site wasn’t working for them in the early afternoon, though the reports started receding after half an hour or so. There were 2,483 outage reports during that time, as reported by Downdetector.
This is not the first time the chatbot is facing an outage. The last outage occurred on December 11, when the AI chatbot faced a similar thing. All three platforms were affected during the last outage as well. This included ChatGPT, Sora and API. This is the same day when Apple launched its iOS 18.2 featuring ChatGPT integration in Siri. Due to the outage some users were not able to use the OpenAI chatbot through Siri at that moment.
The way ahead
Well, the AI model has been suffering from such outages for quite some time. Last month on November 8, ChatGPT was unavailable to more than 19,000 users worldwide for 30 minutes.
In response to the back to back outage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that ChatGPT had been down for 30 minutes only. To emphasise the statement he also added a frown emoji and said, “We are much, much better at reliability than we used to be, but clearly more work is in front of us.” He also further added that since its debut in November 2022, ChatGPT has gained about 250 million weekly active users. Till now, OpenAI’s valuation has reached to highs of about $157 billion. This was about $14 billion in 2021.
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