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ChatGPT Hit With Short but ‘Major’ Outage

Nov 08, 2023 - pymnts.com
OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a significant outage on Wednesday, November 8, just before 9 a.m. Eastern Time, affecting all services for nearly two hours. This came two days after the company's announcement of its new store and a day after a partial outage. OpenAI, which boasts about 100 million weekly active users and is used by over 92% of Fortune 500 companies, identified and fixed the problem promptly.

In other news, OpenAI unveiled its most powerful AI model, GPT-4 Turbo, at its first in-person event on Monday, November 6. GPT-4 Turbo has a context window four times greater than its predecessor and a knowledge cutoff of April 2023. The company also announced plans to lower prices for developers and allow them to create custom versions of GPT-4, reflecting OpenAI's belief in natural language prompts as a future-fit interface for AI technology.

Key takeaways:

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a major outage on Wednesday, Nov. 8, with services impacted between 5:42 AM – 7:16 AM PT.
  • The company recently announced its new AI model, GPT-4 Turbo, which has a context window four times greater than GPT-4 and knowledge up to April 2023.
  • OpenAI plans to lower the prices for developers using its software and will allow them to create custom versions of GPT-4.
  • The company is encouraging more users to create GPTs, with two million developers worldwide already working with OpenAI’s products.
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