SINGAPORE: Hundreds of customers worldwide reported points with OpenAI’s synthetic intelligence chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday (Jan 23).
Outage monitoring website Downdetector.com acquired over 550 OpenAI outage experiences 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 the US, 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 said at 3.54am Pacific time (7.54pm, Singapore time) that it was investigating an “elevated error charge” for ChatGPT and its utility programming interface.
An replace practically an hour later stated that the problem had been resolved.
Nevertheless, OpenAI stated 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 observe for any additional points”.
ChatGPT equally confronted a world outage in December final yr, 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 non-public sector funding by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle to construct AI infrastructure within the US.
Trump stated that OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle are planning a three way partnership known as Stargate, which he stated will construct knowledge centres and create greater than 100,000 jobs within the US.
As of August 2024, ChatGPT had over 200 million weekly lively customers, in response to OpenAI.
