OpenAI says ChatGPT has recovered after hours-long outage [Video]

OpenAI said in an early Thursday X post that its popular ChatGPT assistant, Sora video generator and programming interface for software developers were working again after hours of downtime.

ChatGPT has hit the mainstream. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said on December 4 that the company’s technology was reaching 300 million active users each week. On Wednesday, Apple released new versions of its software for the iPhone, iPad and Mac that bring integrations with ChatGPT.

According to an OpenAI status page, ChatGPT was down for just over four hours. An outage in June lasted for over five hours.

OpenAI was valued at $157 billion in a funding round in October that included participation from existing backer Microsoft as well as chipmaker Nvidia. The company’s rapid ascent began with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and has been the biggest story in the tech industry over the last couple years.

On Monday OpenAI said it was releasing Sorato people …