Overview
- Users began seeing failures around 3 p.m. Eastern, with outage reports topping 10,000 and peaking near 12,000 on Down Detector before declining.
- OpenAI confirmed elevated errors across nearly all features, including conversations, search, image generation, Codex, Atlas, voice mode, GPTs and connectors.
- The company said it identified the issue, applied mitigations and is monitoring recovery, while some users still face problems starting or loading chats.
- OpenAI noted ongoing elevated error rates for finetuning jobs, indicating developer platform operations were affected alongside consumer features.
- The disruption followed the prior day’s Codex Mac launch, which drew over 200,000 downloads, though any link to the outage remains unconfirmed.