ChatGPT experienced a major global outage starting at approximately 5 AM ET, leaving users worldwide unable to load chats, access previous conversations, or send messages due to “too many concurrent requests” errors, according to BleepingComputer.
Global ChatGPT Outage Blocks User Chats and Prompts Concurrency Errors
The disruption impacted users across the United States and Europe, preventing individuals from loading their chat histories or initiating new prompts. According to technical tracking and user reports, the platform became stuck at loading animations for the sidebar. When users attempted to send messages, the interface failed, returning “too many concurrent requests” errors.
OpenAI acknowledged the disruptions publicly on the company status page. “We are investigating the issue for the listed services,” the company stated in an update posted at 5:30 AM ET.
Coding Platform Codex and OpenAI API Also Affected
The widespread system failure extended beyond the consumer chatbot interface. OpenAI’s coding platform, Codex, also suffered disruptions during the morning hours. Additionally, the core OpenAI API experienced failures, with as many as 12 API endpoints listed as having active issues on the company’s official status page.
While OpenAI reported that it had applied a fix and was actively monitoring the situation, tests showed that users continued to run into operational roadblocks.
Did You Know?
API endpoints allow different software applications to communicate with each other. When multiple endpoints fail simultaneously, automated tools, developer integrations, and third-party applications built on top of language models experience immediate downtime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What caused the ChatGPT outage?
OpenAI acknowledged the incident on its status page and reported investigating listed services starting at 5:30 AM ET, though specific root causes were not immediately detailed beyond concurrency and endpoint errors.
Which services were impacted by the disruption?
The outage affected the consumer ChatGPT interface (including chat histories and sidebars), the Codex coding platform, and as many as 12 separate OpenAI API endpoints.
Are previous conversations lost during an outage?
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