ChatGPT is down - here's everything we know about the outage

ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage as users across the internet report problems with OpenAI's chatbot.

Techradar is covering the disruption live, so stay tuned to this live blog to find out what's going on with the world's most popular AI tool.

Hello and welcome to TechRadar's live coverage of ChatGPT's error-filled morning.

I'm John-Anthony Disotto, Senior AI Writer, and I'll be covering the AI outage bringing you all the info you need on the OpenAI disruption.

ChatGPT is experiencing "elevated error rates"

Initial reports of errors started around three hours ago, but issues seem to have ramped up as Europe and the UK wake up.

You can follow OpenAI's server status on the official website, but as it stands, the company is reporting "elevated error rates."

According to OpenAI, "Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue."

Downdetector reports have ramped up over the last couple of hours, with users all around the world unable to access ChatGPT.

When I try to ask 4o a question myself, I get an error message that says "Too many concurrent requests."

At the time of writing, 11 am BST, Downdetector has over 1,000 reports.

Sora is affected too

According to OpenAI, there are multiple impacted components across the company's servers. They include 14 affected API components, 21 affected ChatGPT components, and 4 affected Sora components.

Reddit users weigh in

On Reddit, lots of ChatGPT users have weighed in on the outage.

One user said, "It started off being really slow and churning out a few words per second then hit the red errors."

Another said, "It started freaking out a few minutes ago when I started a conversation."

While some are more hopeful that the issues are in fact OpenAI working on a major update. Could that be the case? I'm not so sure.

Working on Enterprise, down on Free?

TechRadar's Senior AI Editor, Graham Barlow, has experienced the issues too, but his experience differs depending on which account he uses.

He said, "So, I have two ChatGPT accounts. I have an Enterprise account, which is functioning perfectly, and a free ChatGPT account, which is down. It just pauses with a ‘thinking’ icon when I ask it a question, never resolving into a response."

Interesting... Let me see if I notice a difference between my premium ChatGPT account and my free one.

Yep, same issues here. My ChatGPT Enterprise account is slow but still able to respond.

On my personal account, however, I'm met with a "Conversation not found" error...