OpenAI’s ChatGPT service experienced significant performance issues throughout Tuesday, resulting in widespread outages for many users. The problems began surfacing early Tuesday morning, with reports on platforms like X and Reddit highlighting inaccessibility and errors.
According to Downdetector, issues with ChatGPT started around 3 AM ET. OpenAI’s official status page confirmed “elevated error rates and latency” beginning at the same time, noting that the disruption affected不仅 ChatGPT but also its Sora text-to-video AI service and OpenAI APIs.
At 5:23 AM ET, OpenAI added a specific status entry for “elevated error rates on Sora.” Later updates classified the issues for both ChatGPT and Sora as a “partial outage.” While some users reported being completely unable to access ChatGPT, receiving a “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong” message, others could connect but experienced significant slowness and delayed responses. Some users, however, were able to use the service without encountering problems.
The disruption also impacted services relying on OpenAI’s models. Perplexity, an AI search engine, reported experiencing outages and “slowness and elevated error rates” starting around 7 AM ET, as indicated by Downdetector.
As of 6:32 PM ET, OpenAI’s tracker indicated signs of recovery, reporting a “full recovery in the API” and stating that “Nearly all ChatGPT components are now working properly for all users.” The voice mode feature for ChatGPT, however, was still experiencing elevated error rates at that time.
