OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models.
Check OpenAI's own status page at https://status.openai.com for the live state. This page shows OpenAI's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Mobile users unable to see Work Mode and the Model Picker".
How often does OpenAI have outages?
OpenAI posted 26 incidents in the last 90 days and 26 in the last year, 2 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 53m.
When was OpenAI's last major outage?
2026-09-17: "Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode", lasting 1h 21m.
What usually causes OpenAI incidents?
Where OpenAI explained the cause, the most common was deployment or rollout (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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Weekly: the week's major outages, postmortems and breaches, Saturday mornings.
