India, June 10 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT on Tuesday suffered an outage as the user reports indicating problems in using the software surged globally.

According to Down Detector, India had reported more than 800 cases of outages around 3 pm. Meanwhile, the United States received almost 500 complaints and more than 1000 users in the United Kingdom reported problems using ChatGPT.

The outages started around 12:30 pm IST and surged over the next three hours. While using ChatGPT, users reported getting a message which said, "A network error occurred. Please check your connection and try again. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

In India, 88 per cent of the users reported problems with the core fu...