OpenAI tools ChatGPT, Sora image generator are down

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. 

Most of the problems — 92% — were related to ChatGPT, the company's generative AI chatbot, according to Downdetector.