OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage Tuesday morning affecting its ChatGPT AI chatbot service as well as its Sora tool for AI-generated videos. The company said on its status page that it is experiencing "elevated errors and latency" and that it has identified the root cause and is working to mitigate the underlying issue.

OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT was experiencing issues on Tuesday and the company was "working on implementing a mitigation."

Users of the artificial intelligence chatbot reported that it was down on Tuesday, when it informed users that it could not answer questions.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI's generative AI tools.

The popular AI assistant ChatGPT, and image generator Sora, suffered significant downtime as part of a major OpenAI outage today, June 10.

ChatGPT is down this morning and hundreds of people are reporting issues with the AI chatbot. OpenAI is investigating.

As of 6:32PM ET, OpenAI’s tracker reported a “full recovery in the API,” and that “Nearly all ChatGPT components are now working properly for all users.” The one spot of trouble, however, is voice mode, which still has elevated error rates.

ChatGPT experienced mass outages early Tuesday morning, and thousands of users reported issues. OpenAI is investigating.

Fire up ChatGPT and submit any request at the prompt. In return, the AI will tell you that there's an error in the message stream or that something seems to have gone wrong. The trouble is the same whether you use the ChatGPT website, the Windows or Mac app, or the iOS or Android app.