OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI's generative AI tools.

ChatGPT was down Tuesday for some users, with nearly 2,000 outage reports on Downdetector, a site that logs user reports of internet issues. The artificial intelligence chatbot gave some users a "Too many concurrent requests" message,

Thousands of ChatGPT users across the country who had trouble using the app flocked to social media Tuesday morning, looking for answers.

Users of the artificial intelligence chatbot reported that it was down on Tuesday, when it informed users that it could not answer questions.

ChatGPT's natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.

OpenAI plans to add Alphabet’s Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, sources tell Reuters.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.” He made the claim as part of a broader post on his predictions about how AI will change the world.

OpenAI is keeping up its rapid-fire pace of new AI releases. The company introduced the o3 and o4-mini models to its ChatGPT platform in April. At the time, the business promised that a pro model of the o3 was on the way, and that version became available today.