ChatGPT is currently down in a ‘major’ OpenAI outage

Illustration: The Verge OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down and inaccessible for its 100 million weekly active users. ChatGPT went down shortly before 9AM ET / 6AM PT and has remained inaccessible for nearly an hour now. OpenAI says it’s experiencing a major outage that’s also impacting the company’s API services. ChatGPT users are being greeted with a “ChatGPT is at capacity right now” message.
OpenAI says it has “identified an issue resulting in