That ChatGPT Outage Isn't Quite Over Yet. Plus: Alternatives for ...
Manage your account...ChatGPT went down Tuesday morning. If you noticed that ChatGPT was less than its usual chatty self on Tuesday, you weren't alone: The popular AI chatbot from OpenAI experienced a widespread outage that lasted through much of the day. Looks like we are down! OpenAI status shows API partial outage but ...
Root Cause and Recovery
In the early going of the outage on Tuesday, OpenAI's status page reported that the company's AI systems were experiencing "elevated errors and latency," that it had identified the root cause and that it was working to mitigate the underlying issue. OpenAI Status Page Shows Active Incidents Despite “Fully ...
OpenAI's status page as of 6:20 a.m. PT on June 11. The troubles also disrupted access to OpenAI's Sora tool for AI-generated videos and to the company's APIs, which developers use to access the back-end AI models and its new Codex software engineering agent.
Alternatives and Recovery Progress
Sora was back online later Tuesday morning, and the APIs had fully recovered by midday. "We have seen a full recovery in the API. We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT," stated OpenAI, in an update posted at 12:34 p.m. PT.
OpenAI's status page as of 1:30 p.m. PT on June 10. The Downdetector service showed outage reports starting around midnight as Monday changed to Tuesday and spiking several hours later. ChatGPT Down: ChatGPT users face widespread outage across the ...
Alternatives and Competitors
A barrage of generative AI competitors have followed, including Meta AI, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot, but ChatGPT remains the leader largely because it's easy to use.
Popular Alternatives
If you rely on ChatGPT's Dall-E 3 as your image generator, we'd recommend trying Leonardo.Ai for really creative work and Canva for free, beginner-friendly work.
If you're looking for an alternative to the Sora tool for AI-generated videos, we just checked out Microsoft's Bing Video Creator. It's super easy to use and available on mobile now.
