On Tuesday, OpenAI faced a serious technical problem when its major services ChatGPT, Sora video generation model, and developer APIs crashed simultaneously. Due to this widespread disruption, millions of users were unable to use these tools. The sam Altman-led company officially confirmed that "abnormally high error rates and latency" are being recorded in their systems.

The company is investigating

The company also said that it is investigating the source of these technical flaws and is working towards a solution soon. It is worth noting that OpenAI has set a target of increasing the number of ChatGPT users to 1 billion by the end of 2025, in such a situation, such a disruption can become a matter of concern for them.

services were down for four hours, many sectors were affected

The technical problem had started about four hours before the company publicly acknowledged it. During this time, users from many sectors were completely cut off from OpenAI's services. This disruption is considered very important in view of people's increasing dependence on AI-based services. Whether it is content creation or data analysis, these tools are being used everywhere. An update was also released on OpenAI's status tracker website, which said, "Some users are getting more errors and slow response in our services. Our team is trying to get to the root of this problem."

The impact was also seen in major cities of india, hundreds of users complained

The impact of this technical disruption was not limited to America or Europe, but a large number of users in india were also affected by it. According to the outage monitoring website named Downdetector, by 3:14 pm (IST), more than 830 indian users had lodged complaints of disturbances in OpenAI's services. These numbers reflect the severity of the problem reported in a single country. Apart from this, a large number of reports came from major metros of india, which included Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Patna, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.

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