The company is working to mitigate the issue, which has lasted over six hours. User reports suggest that the scale of the problem is smaller than the earlier outage. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attributed the initial outage to the high usage of the platform's new features, which were unveiled on Monday. The company's competitor, Anthropic, also experienced issues with its Claude chatbot on Wednesday, but it is unclear if the two incidents are related.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI's AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, experienced intermittent outages on Wednesday, which the company suspects may be due to a cyberattack.
- The company's service status page showed that both ChatGPT and its API services were facing "periodic outages," which they believe could be a result of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
- Earlier on Wednesday, the platform had a major outage that lasted nearly two hours, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attributed to a surge in interest in the platform's new features.
- OpenAI competitor, Anthropic, also experienced issues with its Claude chatbot on the same day, though it is unclear if the two incidents are related.