Here’s Why ChatGPT Went Silent for 30 Minutes, Sam Altman Clarifies

ChatGPT Outage: OpenAI’s popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT reported a 30-minute outage on Friday evening, affecting all of its users around the world. 

The outage which was reported to last during 4:06pm and 4:30pm PT, nearlyu nearly 30 minutes, the company issued a clarification saying, “This issue has now been resolved. Between 4:06pm and 4:30pm PT, ChatGPT was unavailable to all users. Access was restored to most users by 4:34, with a small number of customers still experiencing issues until 5pm.” 

More work in front of us: Altman

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and a popular figure in AI landscape, tweeted about the outage saing that the company ‘clearly has more work’ infront of it to deal with any such outage. 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT had been down for 30 minutes, adding a frown emoji and saying, "We are much, much better at reliability than we used to be, but clearly more work in front of us."

“Chatgpt went down for 30 mins today :( we are much, much better at reliability than we used to be, but clearly more work in front of us. (it is now the 8th biggest website in the world according to similarweb--we have had a lot of work to do these past two years!),” Altman wrote on Twitter. 

Downdetector Report

The outage-tracking site Downdetector.com reported that ChatGPT's services were down for approximately 30 minutes, impacting more than 19,403 users as of 7:13 pm ET (0013 GMT on Saturday).

Since its inception, the AI chatbot has garnered attention of the world, attracting more than 250 million weekly active users. The valuation of the Microsoft-backed closed source AI company jumped to $157 billion from $14 billion in 2021 as revenues climbed to $3.6 billion from zero. 

(With Reuters inputs)