OpenAI reported issues with its ChatGPT service Tuesday morning.
According to its status page, OpenAI is showing elevated error rates for its application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ChatGPT and Sora, early on June 10.

“Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue,” the status message reads.
When will the services return? Here’s what to know.
Why is ChatGPT not working? DownDetector reports OpenAI outage
Downdetector, which tracks internet outages based on user submissions, reported over 1,300 outages spiking around 6:30 a.m. CDT on Tuesday.
Outage reports began to increase at approximately 2:41 a.m., according to Downdetector.
ChatGPT: ‘Too many concurrent requests’ error message
On social media, users are reporting seeing several ChatGPT error messages, including “Too many concurrent requests.”
According to Quora, the message typically indicates that the user has made too many requests within a specified period when the site is operating normally.
When will ChatGPT be back up?
OpenAI’s status page provides no indication of when services are expected to return.
What is ChatGPT? What is Sora?
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. It debuted in 2022 and can help with writing, editing, translating, summarizing and much more, per PC Magazine.
Sora is an AI-powered video tool that “can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions,” according to OpenAI.
This is a developing story.
— The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Chad Murphy contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: ChatGPT outage: What does too many concurrent requests mean?
Reporting by Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman / Austin American-Statesman
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