Fri Jan 24 00:26:45 IST 2025: ## ChatGPT Suffers Major Outage Affecting Thousands of Users
**San Francisco, CA** – A widespread outage is currently impacting ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. Thousands of users are reporting difficulties accessing the service and their past conversations, according to outage tracking website Downdetector, which shows a significant spike in complaints. While OpenAI has yet to officially comment on the cause of the disruption, nearly 4,000 issues have been reported.
The outage appears to extend beyond ChatGPT, suggesting potential problems with OpenAI’s broader infrastructure, including speculation about downtime for the GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models. Users are sharing their experiences and frustrations on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.
This disruption comes amidst the rapidly growing use of ChatGPT and other AI platforms in daily life. In a recent podcast interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that artificial intelligence will eventually surpass human intelligence, stating that his future child will never be smarter than AI. Altman expressed a belief that this technological advancement will become a commonplace reality for future generations.
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