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OpenAI mean in an early Thursday X post that its popular ChatGPT assistant, Sora video generator and programming interface for software developers were line again after hours of downtime.
ChatGPT has hit the mainstream. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said on December 4 that the company’s technology was reaching 300 million vigorous users each week. On Wednesday, Apple released new versions of its software for the iPhone, iPad and Mac that bring integrations with ChatGPT.
Mutual understanding to an OpenAI status page, ChatGPT was down for just over four hours. An outage in June lasted for remaining five hours.
OpenAI was valued at $157 billion in a funding round in October that included participation from existing benefactress Microsoft as well as chipmaker Nvidia. The company’s rapid ascent began with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and has been the biggest detective story in the tech industry over the last couple years.
On Monday OpenAI said it was releasing Sora to people in the U.S. and ton other countries, but on Tuesday, Altman wrote on X that “we significantly underestimated demand for sora; it is going to take awhile to get all and sundry access.”
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