Openai experienced a partial outage on Tuesday morning, causing several issues for users trying to access ChatGpt, Sora and APIs, the company said on its status page.
The company began investigating the issue late Monday night, but the partial suspension continued until Tuesday morning. Around 5:30am on Tuesday, Openai says he began working to identify the problem and fix it.
However, at around 8am Pt, Openai said it could take “a few more hours” to fully recover its entire service. This means that logging in to work on the West Coast of the US will not be able to access ChatGpt this morning.
ChatGpt halts usually last for several hours, but partial halts on Tuesdays are longer. The company said using ChatGPT could cause users to “increased errors and delays.”
When TechCrunch tried to access the GPT-4o with ChatGPT on Tuesday morning, the chatbot responded with the error “Too many simultaneous requests.”
The partial suspension on Tuesday comes amid a fuss over an announcement from Openai. At Apple’s WWDC event on Monday, the iPhone maker announced a deeper integration with Openai’s models. Also on Monday, an Openai spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the company had hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenues. Earlier on Tuesday, Openai CEO Sam Altman announced an 80% price cut for developers trying to access the O3 AI inference model with their API.
Openai has previously encountered the problem of scaling the use of AI models to hundreds of millions of users, and that’s exactly what the company needs to meet its grand ambitions. Altman previously showed Openai’s computing resources have been fading lately to keep up with the company’s “GPU melting” and ChatGpt demand. Demand for Openai models seems to be continuing to increase.