Down Again! ChatGPT and Sora Outage Sparks Global AI Productivity Crisis

TradingKey - On the night of July 15 (U.S. Eastern Time), OpenAI’s services — including ChatGPT, its video-generation model Sora, and the GPT API — suffered a major outage, sparking widespread frustration among users worldwide. This marks the second significant disruption this month, further fueling concerns over the platform’s reliability.

According to Downdetector, reports of service failures began rapidly accumulating starting at around 8:45 p.m. ET. The outage affected users across North America, Europe, and Asia, indicating a truly global incident.

As of now, OpenAI has not yet disclosed the specific cause of the outage or provided an estimated time for resolution. However, frequent service disruptions can have a significant impact on businesses and developers who rely heavily on its API. 

As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in workflows and enterprise systems, the demand for high availability and system resilience has never been more critical.