OpenAI’s ChatGPT is currently experiencing a massive outage that began early this morning. According to DownDetector, several reports of the outage began trickling in at around 2:20 am ET, with the spike in outage reports at around 5:30 am ET in the U.S.
The outage on the AI chatbot has continued to peak over the past several hours as people across Europe, North America, and Australia face difficulties accessing ChatGPT.
The outage is impacting both free as well as tiers of the AI chatbot, with users seeing error messages when trying to use the service or ChatGPT failing to load altogether.
So, how many people were asking ChatGPT the most existential questions, and then the whole system crashed? Maybe we all asked the same question, and the system did not want to reply. What do you think? #ChatGPTdown pic.twitter.com/6dcgZrtlXzJune 10, 2025
OpenAI took to X to confirm the outage and stated that they’ve identified the root cause and are working as fast as possible to fix the issue. Users can also get the latest updates on the outage from OpenAI’s status page, which indicates that “We are continuing to work on implementing the mitigation, and we are now seeing recovery on API. Full recovery across all listed services may take another few hours. We will continue to provide updates as progress is made.”
That said, every time there’s a massive, unexpected outage on one platform, people tend to look for other alternatives. Several people who use ChatGPT took to X to state that they’re using AI alternatives like Google’s Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity AI that seem to be up and running as usual.
More to come..
