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.

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 chatbot ChatGPT, text-to-video generator Sora, and some APIs were recording high error rates on December 26

Major global outage hits OpenAI. Highest severity for ChatGPT and API service while Sora is only partially affected.

OpenAI has said that access to ChatGPT has mostly been restored after the widely popular AI tool stopped working for many users across the world early on Friday, December 27. ChatGPT’s developer API (application programming interface) as well as the startup’s newly launched AI video generator Sora were also down for a couple of hours.

More than 50,000 outages have been reported for ChatGPT on Downdetector.com after a surge in reports around 1:30 p.m EST. The outage appeared to persist beyond 3:30 p.m. EST. OpenAI did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment about the status of its chatbot.

It's not your internet, it's not your computer, it's not you. What really happened is that OpenAI's chatbot called 'ChatGPT' is not working worldwide.