If you’ve noticed that ChatGPT is a little less chatty today, you’re not alone: OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage that’s affecting its ChatGPT AI chatbot. The thousands of reported outages continued increasing Tuesday morning. The troubles have been ongoing for 13 hours now.
An OpenAI representative responded to CNET via email, directing us to its status page, which originally stated that OpenAI was experiencing «elevated errors and latency» and that it had identified the root cause and was working to mitigate the underlying issue.
«We have seen a full recovery in the API. We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT,» the latest update posted at 12:34 p.m. PT/3:34 p.m. ET said.
Its Sora tool for AI-generated videos was also down earlier, although an update posted at 5:28 a.m. PT stated, «All impacted services have now fully recovered.»
The Downdetector service also shows outage reports starting around midnight and spiking several hours later. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which is also the parent company of CNET.)
We are observing elevated error rates and latency across ChatGPT and the API.
Our engineers have identified the root cause and are working as fast as possible to fix the issue.
For updates see our status page: https://t.co/oUGSSyltRU— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 10, 2025
Launched in 2022, ChatGPT has become the most popular AI application ever released, with 400 million weekly users. A barrage of generative AI competitors have followed, including Meta AI, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot, but ChatGPT remains the leader largely because it’s easy to use. During its Worldwide Developers Conference 2025 keynote on Monday, Apple even touted an expansion of its ChatGPT integration.
The AI chatbot uses learning algorithms and large-language models to process massive amounts of data from books and the internet, which it uses to deliver human-like responses to prompts from users. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
What can you do while OpenAI is down?
Although OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be among the most popular options, there are plenty of alternatives to use while it’s down — and many of them are free.
Chatbots
Claude is our current favorite chatbot we’ve tested, and Claude even knew all the details about ChatGPT’s outage, according to my colleague Jon Reed, a CNET senior editor who covers AI.
Image generators
If you rely on ChatGPT’s Dall-E 3 as your image generator, we’d recommend trying Leonardo.Ai for really creative work and Canva for free, beginner-friendly work.
Video generators
If you’re looking for an alternative to the Sora tool for AI-generated videos, we just checked out Microsoft’s Bing Video Creator. It’s super easy to use and available on mobile now.
