OpenAI’s ChatGPT is hit with outages. Here’s what to know. [Video]

ChatGPT stopped functioning for many users on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. The app had partially recovered after a few hours, the San Francisco-based company said.

“ChatGPT, the API and Sora are currently experiencing high error rates. The issue is caused by an upstream provider and we are currently monitoring,” the artificial intelligence company posted in an update to its status page after the technical glitches cropped up at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern.

As of Thursday evening, the company said Sora, its video generation model, was fully operational and its automated application programming interface, or API, which lets software programs speak to one another, was starting to recover.

“We are continuing to work on an overall fix for ChatGPT and APIs,” the company posted as of 6:16 p.m. Eastern. About an hour earlier, it said ChatGPT had partially recovered while chat …