The 500 million people who use OpenAI’s AI chatbox ChatGPT every week may not be able to use the service for a few hours, even if they make it past the login page.
According to reports, over 1,900 users have already reported outages across OpenAI’s products, with about 92% of reports describing difficulties in using ChatGPT, including the error message “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong”.
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025, OpenAI reported “elevated error rates” across several services, mostly affecting application programming interfaces (APIs) and ChatGPT. The status report on the company’s website listed ChatGPT’s Web, Mobile (iOS and Android), WhatsApp, 1-800-CHAT-GPT, Dall-E, Voice mode, etc and APIs Chat, Completions (legacy), Compliance, Images, Embeddings, Audio, Assistants, Uploads, etc, as affected services.
OpenAI, according to Forbes, tends to solve ChatGPT outages within a few hours after they first began. Previous outages include two outages in December 2024, an outage in January 2025 and another outage in March 2025.
As at 5:39pm on Tuesday, live blog TechRadar reported that “ChatGPT is coming back!”, considering the reduction in outage reports on Down Detector.
Sources:
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OpenAI (2025). New funding to build towards AGI. https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates
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