OpenAI’s ChatGPT recovering after being hit with outages. Here’s what to know. [Video]

ChatGPT stopped functioning for many users on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. The app was recovering several hours later, the San Francisco-based company said.

“ChatGPT is recovering and we are continuing to work on an overall fix,” the artificial intelligence company posted in an update to its status page as of 7:05 p.m. Eastern. Earlier, it said ChatGPT had partially recovered while chat history was still not loading.

The company also said Sora, its video generation model, and its automated application programming interface, or API, which lets software programs speak to one another, were operational.

Is ChatGPT down?

More than 15,000 incidents were reported by OpenAI users on Thursday afternoon, with most of the problems related to ChatGPT, according to Downdetector, an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services.

The technical glitches …