ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is experiencing an outage on Thursday afternoon. According to Downdector.com, thousands of users have reported outages after a surge in reports beginning around 10:20 a.

A company status page showed ChatGPT and the company’s application programming interface (API) experiencing a “major” outage, while Sora had a “partial” outage. More than 12,000 people reported OpenAI-related in the last 24 hours, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora video generator are currently experiencing an outage that has made them inaccessible for many users. The issue also affects the application programming interfaces that developers use to integrate the company’s technology into their software.

OpenAI is working to fix an issue that caused major outages in its applications, including ChatGPT. A statement from the artificial intelligence (AI) company, posted on social media platform, X, just after 4 p.m. Thursday, noted "most" of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora were down Thursday afternoon.

OpenAI has confirmed it is working to restore access to a number of its services including its popular ChatGPT service, its APIs and Sora. OpenAI said it has found the cause for the issue and have started recovery. Some of the services are now being restored.

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is experiencing an outage Thursday, causing many users to error out when using ChatGPT or Sora. The tech company says the outage is caused by an “upstream provider” issue. The outage began around 2 p.m. ET, according to DownDetector. Nearly 15,000 people were reporting outages at that time.

OpenAI’s widely used chatbot, ChatGPT, faced a significant outage on Thursday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform. The disruption sparked widespread reports of errors and downtime.