ChatGPT down: OpenAI responds to the widespread outage, says, ‘Full recovery across all services may take time!’

In a major service disruption, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, leaving users across multiple countries unable to access its core functionalities. The outage began around 2:45 PM IST, peaking shortly thereafter, and affected both web and mobile users globally.

According to data from Downdetector, the incident prompted more than 800 reports in India alone. A breakdown of these complaints showed that 88 per cent were related to ChatGPT’s core operations, with eight per cent highlighting problems with the mobile application, and the remaining four per cent pointing to difficulties with API integration.