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OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT, along with its related services, experienced a widespread outage Tuesday, leaving thousands of users across the globe unable to access the platform, according to user reports and the company’s status page.

Downdetector, a service that monitors website disruptions, reported a sharp increase in user complaints, with thousands globally citing issues accessing ChatGPT, including error messages and slow response times.

The site’s data showed a significant spike in outage reports, though it’s unclear if all users were affected.

The outage also affected the related services, with OpenAI acknowledging the issue on its status page, stating: “Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across APIs, ChatGPT, and Sora.”

The company said it is actively investigating but has not provided a timeline for resolution.