ChatGPT suffered a widespread global outage on Saturday, causing significant disruption as thousands of users around the world reported problems accessing the platform.
Users experienced difficulties logging in, sending prompts and accessing their chat history, while many encountered repeated error messages and slow response times. Reports of the outage surged during the early hours of Saturday, with outage-tracking platforms recording a sharp increase in complaints.
OpenAI acknowledged the disruption, confirming that it was investigating the issue and working to restore services. The company said it had begun implementing measures to gradually recover the platform but did not disclose the technical cause of the outage or provide a timeline for full restoration.
The disruption also affected more than text-based conversations, with users reporting login failures, missing chat histories and interruptions to parts of OpenAI's API services, impacting developers and businesses that rely on the company's AI models.
Complaints emerged from users across multiple countries, indicating the outage was global rather than limited to a specific region. The incident follows a series of service disruptions in recent weeks, including increased error rates and partial outages affecting ChatGPT and other OpenAI services.
OpenAI advised users to monitor its official service status page for updates, stressing that the issue was not related to users' accounts or devices and that services were expected to be restored gradually as recovery efforts continued.
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