ChatGPT back online after outage which hit thousands worldwide

ChatGPT is working once more after an outage noticed the world’s best-known synthetic intelligence (AI) instrument taken offline.

Downdetector, which tracks web site outages, confirmed greater than 10,000 folks reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday.

Customers trying to entry it had been met with a message studying “the net server reported a foul gateway error”.

OpenAI mentioned on its standing web page a repair was carried out at 15:09 GMT, and the agency was “monitoring the outcomes”.

It has not but publicly commented on the reason for the outage, which started at round 11:00 GMT on Thursday.

Nevertheless, many individuals took to social media to spotlight the issue and the disruption it brought about them.

A few of these posting on X concerning the outage had been capable of see the humorous facet of the state of affairs, nevertheless.

“ChatGPT is down once more? Through the work day? So that you’re telling me I’ve to… THINK?!”, joked one person.

ChatGPT’s standing web page mentioned on the time the app had been “experiencing elevated error charges” and the agency was “investigating”.

Because it exploded onto the scene in November 2022, ChatGPT sparked monumental international curiosity – and funding – in generative AI instruments.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman mentioned that, by December 2024, ChatGPT was used weekly by greater than 300 million folks worldwide.

Although many individuals use the free model of the chatbot, the agency prices as much as $200 monthly for its varied membership tiers.

It comes after tech companies together with OpenAI pledged a $500bn (£405bn) funding into AI infrastructure within the US.