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.

ChatGPT is down, the large language model’s developer OpenAI confirmed Tuesday following reports that the chatbot and the Sora video generator have been hit by a worldwide outage.