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OpenAI Restores ChatGPT, Sora and Codex After Early Morning Outage

OpenAI’s engineers are probing internal logs to identify the root cause with users advised to consult its status page rather than retrying logins.

Frustrated users report ChatGPT outages, with slow performance and errors affecting 82% of global users. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
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Chatgpt down in US

Overview

  • The outage began early on July 16 as thousands of users worldwide reported ChatGPT, Sora and Codex failures on Downdetector around 6 a.m. IST.
  • Downdetector data showed more than 3,400 U.S. reports, with 82 percent citing ChatGPT errors, 12 percent website issues and 6 percent app disruptions alongside API and video generation delays.
  • OpenAI acknowledged elevated error rates on its service status page and deployed mitigations that restored all impacted services after roughly three and a half hours.
  • The exact cause of the disruption remains undisclosed, prompting speculation among users and analysts about server overloads or software bugs.
  • OpenAI advises against repeated login attempts to avoid security locks and urges users to track updates on its official status page as #ChatGPTdown trended across social media.