OpenAI’s ChatGPT down again after global outage in December
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Outage reports for OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, from Singapore-based users peaked at 774 cases at 7.44pm on Jan 23.
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SINGAPORE – Users of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT reported a service outage on Jan 23, saying they are unable to access the chatbot and retrieve conversation history.
According to Downdetector, the outage began at 7.14pm.
Outage reports for OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, from Singapore-based users peaked at 774 cases at 7.44pm.
Out of these cases, 91 per cent involved ChatGPT while the remaining involved OpenAI’s website and app.
Globally, there were more than 4,100 outage reports at around 7.40pm.
OpenAI has not addressed the outage on its social media accounts.
In December 2024, ChatGPT faced an hours-long global outage.
On Dec 12, outage reports from Singapore-based users peaked at 150 cases at 8.09am, while reports from users based in the US peaked at 28,478 at 7.40am.
Bloomberg reported in November 2024 that ChatGPT had about 200 million active users at the time.
The fast-growing application had more than one million paid users for its corporate version as at September 2024.
