ChatGPT is back online after an outage

After an outage took down OpenAI’s ChatGPT service for a few hours during Tuesday’s early hours, the service experienced another major outage during the daytime in the US. “ChatGPT is unavailable for some users,” said OpenAI in its status message. “We are currently investigating this issue.” The second round of issues started at around 10:30AM ET, with thousands of reports of issues showing up on Downdetector.

Many users of the ChatGPT mobile apps and the web service were not seeing replies; however, at about 1:17PM ET, OpenAI confirmed the issue was resolved.

Around the same time that ChatGPT had its issues, some users reported problems with Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude AI, and Perplexity AI web search. Google Gemini appears to be widely available, and people were able to access Claude again pretty quickly. By 1:30PM ET, Perplexity confirmed that its AI search tool has been restored also.

The last major outage to hit ChatGPT came in November when the service was down for around 90 minutes, which also impacted OpenAI’s API services. The API appears to be unaffected in this latest outage. OpenAI later revealed that the November outage was related to a DDoS attack.

A Microsoft outage also took down ChatGPT search features last month, alongside the software giant’s own Copilot service.

Update, June 4th: Noted current ChatGPT access has been restored, and reports of issues with other AI tools.