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This morning, many users were complaining that OpenAI ChatGPT was down and they couldn't access the service ance use it.

One of the boosters is Microsoft, which has integrated it into various products, including [Microsoft Office 365](https://www.gizchina.com/2023/03/16/microsoft-365-copilot-does-the-office-job-instead-of-you/) and [Microsoft Power Copilot](https://www.gizchina.com/2023/03/18/say-goodbye-to-coding-microsoft-launches-power-platform-copilot/). At the time of writing, the service was back up. In particular, OpenAI’s chatbot called ChatGPT, which has been the talk of the town, has been unavailable. Looking at the site health monitor Down Detector, which has hundreds of reports from OpenAI ChatGPT and GPT-4 users, we can see that it’s not a specific server problem but a general problem. The headline on the OpenAI website reads “outage on chat.openai.com.” There is no official or rumored information about the reason for the outage. [earlier this month](https://www.gizchina.com/2023/03/14/gpt-4-is-launched-this-new-chatgpt-update-is-mind-blowing/).

Users on Twitter have also come forward sharing the information about ChatGPT outage.

[Looking for a flat in Bengaluru? TRENDING According to OpenAI's Operational Status page, Chat.openAI.com is showing a major outage of 24 minutes. The GPT-4 model was introduced early last week. Users on Twitter have also come forward sharing the information about ChatGPT outage. OpenAI is suffering an outage as thousands of users are reporting problems with the platform.

Learn more about the major outage for ChatGPT and Labs users and how to get updates when it becomes available again.

- The login link for ChatGPT Plus users is working again for some users. [OpenAI Status page](https://status.openai.com/) shows that in addition to ChatGPT, Labs is having an outage related to an underlying capacity failure. [incident page](https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd) for this outage, which shows OpenAI began investigating the issue at 9:41 a.m. New accounts receive an initial $18 credit for the OpenAI Playground. They discovered the root cause of the issue and are working on a resolution. Mobile users report receiving the dreaded “ChatGPT is at capacity right now” message and its outage limerick.

After an hour, the AI-based chatbot returned back online. Users couldn't use the platform anywhere in the world.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Not only that, but customers would be the first to get new features and add-ons. [Sam Altman](/topic/sam-altman), wrote on Twitter that the company likes India. [ChatGPT](/topic/chatgpt), which was made by the technology company [OpenAI](/topic/openai)in San Francisco, was back online after being [down](/topic/down)for an hour. Many people took to Twitter to talk about the problem and trolled the site with memes, trolls, opinions, and other content. On the other hand, the company has not done anything about it yet.

The website Downdetector logged over 1,000 reports from frustrated ChatGPT users, with the site concluding that "user reports indicate problems at OpenAI". The ...

[Other users](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wcq8f/did_i_finally_get_banned_or_is_everyone_else/) are reporting missing conversations, with many assuming that they'd been banned from the service. [reporting issues](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wcsdb/thats_why_i_paid/) (opens in new tab), under the thread 'That's why I paid?'. [some stating](https://twitter.com/AllenLooi/status/1637734112659390465) (opens in new tab) "I have already forgotten how to do my job". Full outages for ChatGPT's public chatbot have been rare, with the site reporting 99.15% uptime over the past three months. We still don't know what's caused the issues, but will update this liveblog when we get official comment from OpenAI. Here's everything that happened – and how global ChatGPT users reported experiencing their first AI chatbot outage.

ChatGPT has been down for several hours, causing minor panic among its huge user base. This isn't the first time and some are turning to Bing Chat and Bard.

The [back end is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure](https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-explains-thousands-nvidia-gpus-built-chatgpt/) cloud computing service. The new system can handle a much larger quantity of text as well as accept images as input. Bard usage is up in response to the ChatGPT outage as well. [OpenAI’s status page](https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd) for chat.openai.com reports that the service is down at the time of writing. [Sahil Lavingia](https://twitter.com/shl/status/1637865966142115840) summed up the overall feeling created by the outage in this tweet. [Downdetector](https://downdetector.com/status/openai/), problems started around 1 a.m.

After an hour, the AI-based chatbot returned back online. Users couldn't use the platform anywhere in the world.

[Sam Altman](/topic/sam-altman), wrote on Twitter that the company likes India. In [India](/topic/india), you can now sign up for ChatGPT Plus. [ChatGPT](/topic/chatgpt), which was made by the technology company [OpenAI](/topic/openai)in San Francisco, was back online after being [down](/topic/down)for an hour. Not only that, but customers would be the first to get new features and add-ons. Many people took to Twitter to talk about the problem and trolled the site with memes, trolls, opinions, and other content. With the current module, users could do creative things like write marketing copy, a screenplay, dialogues, a script, and more.

OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of ...