OpenAI suffered a global outage that disrupted ChatGPT and a broad swath of services, including APIs, DALL‑E, Codex, and Sora, with users reporting trouble logging in, loading chats, and creating accounts.

Users experienced failures such as unresponsive chats, network errors, slow performance, issues with voice dictation, and errors about too many concurrent connections.

The outage was reported worldwide, affecting users in the United States, India, Europe, and elsewhere, with failures to access saved chats noted.

Social media emerged as a primary channel for updates, as users posted experiences and tracked outages with related hashtags.

The disruption touched both consumer offerings and enterprise API endpoints, signaling a broad impact across OpenAI’s product ecosystem.

OpenAI’s outage tracker labeled the incident a red alert, spanning app, web, and API endpoints for both consumer and enterprise users.

The event comes amid rapid adoption of AI tools for productivity, coding, content creation, and research, underscoring growing reliance on OpenAI services.

OpenAI had not yet issued a public notification or detailed explanation at the time of this report.

The official status page indicated an ongoing investigation into conversations, account access, and API functionality, but offered no detailed timeline for restoration.

Downdetector showed thousands of reports from the US and Indian cities like New Delhi, Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru, signaling widespread impact.

Early data indicated over 4,000 US reports and more than 260 in India, with outages affecting major cities.

Social media users posted error messages and unresponsive screens as the outage persisted across platforms.