If you’re having trouble using ChatGPT right now, you’re not alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector seeing reports reach more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET.
While the initial outage may be fixed, OpenAI still has an active status alert. This is only for the maintenance part of its API service. But the end can also be seen for the last issue, because the current statement from the company is “We are applying mitigation and monitoring the recovery.
Another AI chatbot, Anthropic’s Claude, also experienced an outage today. it listed same issues with “Increased API error rate in all Claude models.” That situation was resolved at 1PM ET.
Update, February 3, 2025, 6:17PM ET: Updated to reflect the change in status and address the loss of Claude.







