ChatGPT Outage: OpenAI Offers Update as Services Disrupted

ChatGPT Down: OpenAI Confirms Global Outage and Restores Services

September 3, 2025 – OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced a widespread outage early today, leaving users without responses across web, mobile, and desktop platforms. The issue notably impacted login, conversation flows, advanced tools like GPT Vision, DALL·E, voice mode, memory, file uploads, and more—20+ essential components were affected.

Within minutes, OpenAI acknowledged the problem on its system status page, flagging the incident as a disruption to core functionality and advising users that a resolution was in progress.

By early afternoon IST, the company confirmed that engineers had identified the root cause and restored service functionality. Most users reported that ChatGPT was operational again, though monitoring continues to ensure stability.