OpenAI’s extremely popular ChatGPT service is currently down and non-functional for its 100 million weekly active users. The service went down just before 9AM ET, so it’s been well over an hour. OpenAI has acknowledged the outage and said that it’s also impacting the company’s API services.

Instead of a working platform, ChatGPT users are greeted with a warning message that says it’s “at capacity right now.” OpenAI writes in an error report that it has “identified an issue resulting in high error rates across the API and ChatGPT, and we are working on remediation.” The company hasn’t given a time frame for this remediation.

The services were also impacted for a few hours last night, but this was just a partial outage that didn’t impact all users. OpenAI’s chatbot platform has had very few, if any, operational issues until last night. The service has grown at a steady clip, reaching that aforementioned 100 million weekly user milestone without any hiccups. Also, there are over 2 million developers on the API side of things.

OpenAI has been making announcements left and right, teasing customizable AI bots that anyone can create and even considering making its own chips to power the service. We’ll update this post when we hear more about the outage.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/chatgpt-is-down-after-a-major-openai-outage-154223315.html?src=rss

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