OpenAI says ChatGPT downtime caused by targeted attack
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More than 92% of Fortune 500 companies use the platform, up from 80% in August, and they span across industries such as financial services, legal applications and education, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati told reporters Monday. "We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack," OpenAI shared on Wednesday evening, just before 11 p.m. The issues follow Wednesdays outage across the companys tools and services, including the API used by more than two million developers, and seemed to begin Wednesday morning, when OpenAI reported errors "impacting all services," according to its status page. The attack also follows OpenAIs first in-person event on Monday, where the company announced it had surpassed 100 million weekly active users. It also announced its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, GPT-4 Turbo, and a new option allowing users to create customized versions of ChatGPT.
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