India, June 10 -- OpenAI's flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, disrupting access for millions of users worldwide. The company reported elevated error rates and latency issues across its services, including ChatGPT, its API offerings, and the recently launched Sora platform.
The outage began early in the day, with OpenAI first investigating the issue around 7:36 a.m. ET. By 11:30 a.m., the company acknowledged the disruption on its website, stating, "Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue."
Throughout the afternoon, the company provided updates, eventually identifying the root cause and initiating recovery effort...