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OpenAI Faces Major Outage Amid New Launches

CosmicTaco · 2024-12-12T11:16:23.957114+05:30

- OpenAI experienced a significant outage affecting ChatGPT, Sora, and its API around 3pm PT, but services were largely restored by 9pm PT. - The outage coincided with the launch of OpenAI's integration with Apple in iOS 18.2 and the public release of Sora, suggesting high traffic may have contributed. - This interruption follows another global service outage for Meta products, and occurs during OpenAI's '12 days of shipmas' event. Source: [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/chatgpt-and-sora-are-down/)

OpenAI experienced a significant outage affecting ChatGPT, Sora, and its API around 3pm PT, but services were largely restored by 9pm PT.
The outage coincided with the launch of OpenAI's integration with Apple in iOS 18.2 and the public release of Sora, suggesting high traffic may have contributed.
This interruption follows another global service outage for Meta products, and occurs during OpenAI's '12 days of shipmas' event.

Source: Techcrunch