The outage happened in the same week that OpenAI announced the creation of the GPT store, a marketplace for customizable chatbots. The company's DevDay event also featured a surprise appearance from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who announced further investment in the OpenAI partnership. Despite the outage, OpenAI aims to make ChatGPT the preferred choice for developers and consumers in the competitive AI market.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT and API experienced a major outage affecting millions of users, the longest for the company's API in nine months.
- The outage occurred two days after OpenAI significantly increased its token input and updated its knowledge cutoff, while also reducing prices.
- Despite implementing a fix, users are still reporting difficulty logging into their accounts and using OpenAI’s products.
- OpenAI's updates this week included the creation of the GPT store, a marketplace for customizable chatbots, and a surprise appearance from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announcing further investment in the OpenAI partnership.