Beijing time this morning.OpenAI Confirmation of its chatbot ChatGPT undergoingglobalcrash (of a computer), ChatGPT,Sora and APIs were affected. The company updated its incident report to say that it has identified the cause of the downtime, is working to restore normal service as quickly as possible, and apologizes for the downtime.
At 9:50 p.m. BST today, the company further updated its accident report to say that it was in the process ofContinued restoration workAPI and ChatGPT services are partially restored, Sora is still down.
As 1AI previously reported, OpenAI's downtime issue also affected iOS 18.2's integration with Siri.
The iOS 18.2 release earlier today introduced new features for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users, including Siri's integration with ChatGPT, which allows users to interact with OpenAI's chatbot directly through the Siri interface. However, due to the current downtime challenges, theFor some users who have updated to the latest system, this feature is also affected and does not work properly.