SINGAPORE: Hundreds of customers worldwide reported points with OpenAI’s synthetic intelligence chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday (Jan 23).
Outage monitoring web site Downdetector.com obtained over 550 OpenAI outage studies from customers in Singapore at round 7.40pm.
Customers who accessed the ChatGPT interface have been met with a webpage displaying the message: “The net server reported a nasty gateway error.”
In america, the place its creator OpenAI is headquartered, customers reported over 4,000 outages on Downdetector.com at across the identical time.
On its standing web page, OpenAI acknowledged at 3.54am Pacific time (7.54pm, Singapore time) that it was investigating an “elevated error charge” for ChatGPT and its software programming interface.
An replace almost an hour later mentioned that the problem had been resolved.
Nevertheless, OpenAI mentioned at 5.12am Pacific time that it was nonetheless “experiencing elevated error charges” for ChatGPT and that investigations have been ongoing.
A repair was deployed about two hours later, with the corporate stating it was “persevering with to watch for any additional points”.
ChatGPT equally confronted a worldwide outage in December final 12 months, when it confronted “excessive error charges” for over 4 hours.
The newest outage additionally comes after US President Donald Trump’s announcement of up to US$500 billion in personal sector funding by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle to construct AI infrastructure within the US.
Trump mentioned that OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle are planning a three way partnership referred to as Stargate, which he mentioned will construct information centres and create greater than 100,000 jobs within the US.
As of August 2024, ChatGPT had over 200 million weekly lively customers, in line with OpenAI.
