OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a global outage on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, confirmed by the company and tracked by the website DownDetector. Users worldwide reported that the AI chatbot was not generating responses, affecting multiple services including login, web, and mobile versions.

• 23 parts of ChatGPT's service were affected, including key functionalities like image generation and WhatsApp integration.
• The outage was reported globally, with 85 percent of users in India experiencing downtime, and thousands of reports from the United States and the United Kingdom.
• Other OpenAI products, such as API, Sora, and Playground, were not impacted during this incident, which followed a previous outage on June 10.