Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI investigates ChatGPT and Codex outage
OpenAI said it was investigating an outage affecting ChatGPT and Codex, while the company’s next model, Astra, was expected soon and had not been linked to the service problems.
- The outage began at about 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, 3 September, and affected ChatGPT and Codex.
- Users reported problems with conversations, login, search, file uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, Agent and other services.
- OpenAI said on its status page that it was investigating the issue for the listed services.
- The status page said at least 15 ChatGPT components were affected.
- The article said the outage came before the expected launch of OpenAI’s next model, Astra.
ChatGPT and Codex were hit by an outage that began at about 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, 3 September. Users reported failures across core ChatGPT functions, including conversations, login, search, uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research and Agent.
OpenAI said on its status page that it was looking into the issue. The page said at least 15 ChatGPT components were affected.
The article said the outage came before the expected launch of OpenAI’s next model, Astra. It said OpenAI had recently confirmed that Astra would be released soon.
OpenAI had not said whether the outage and the planned model launch were connected. The article said the company was still investigating the elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.
Named in this story
Companies
- OpenAI
- said it was investigating the outage and had confirmed Astra would come soon
Products and systems
- ChatGPT
- had conversations and other features affected by the outage
- Codex
- was also affected by the outage
- Astra
- was OpenAI’s next model, expected to launch soon
How the source tells it
The piece was mostly a routine outage update, with urgency from the breadth of affected services and a speculative link to Astra.
- urgency a rapid catalogue of affected features and live status-page updates
- speculation presented as fact the outage was placed beside an upcoming model launch without evidence of a connection