(Reuters) -Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s standard chatbot ChatGPT was again up after an outage affected 1000’s of customers, the corporate mentioned on Friday.
“Points with ChatGPT have now been resolved,” OpenAI mentioned in a press release on its web site.
Entry was restored to most customers by 4:34 p.m. PT (0034 GMT on Saturday), OpenAI mentioned, including {that a} small variety of prospects confronted points till 5 p.m. (0100 GMT on Saturday).
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT had been down for half-hour, including a frown emoji and saying, “We’re a lot, significantly better at reliability than we was, however clearly extra work in entrance of us.”
Outage monitoring web site Downdetector.com mentioned ChatGPT’s companies have been down for about half an hour, affecting over 19,403 customers as of seven:13 p.m. ET (0013 GMT on Saturday).
Because the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, it has attracted 250 million weekly energetic customers. OpenAI’s valuation has jumped to $157 billion from $14 billion in 2021 as revenues climbed to $3.6 billion from zero, far exceeding Altman’s projections on the time.
