Open AI’s GenAI chatbot ChatGPT is down for thousands of users across the globe, including India.

Users across the world reported about the disruption somewhere around 12 PM. According to outage tracker website Downdetector, around 4,740 Indian users have complained that they are unable to use the ChatGPT.

Indian users reported that after writing a prompt on OpenAI’s GenAI chatbot, an error pops up saying “Something went wrong while generating the response.”

In India, 88% of users have said that they are facing problems with the GenAI chatbot. OpenAI has acknowledged the issue and said that it is investigating problems with its ChatGPT platform, APIs and the AI image generation tool Sora.

“Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue,” OpenAI said in a status report. The report further mentions that users have been experiencing the issue since the last five hours.

The Microsoft-backed global AI platform claims to have 300 Mn active weekly users. Including its AI chatbot, the company offers a range of large language models (LLMs) from GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. Additionally, it also provides reasoning models and system APIs to its clients.

This is the second such instance this year when ChatGPT has reported a global wide outage. In January, thousands of users worldwide reported that the platform was down for 40 minutes and a partial outage for two hours. The GenAI chatbot suffered a bad gateway error glitch which led to increased error rates for it, OpenAI said at the time.

India is one of the largest markets for ChatGPT surpassing the US. According to digital intelligence platform Sensor Tower, AI app downloads by Indians surpassed the 2.2 Bn mark by August 2024.

The development also comes at a time when OpenAI is in the eye of a storm for mounting copyright infringement cases. After the Indian media entity , a number of other entities including Network18 and NDTV followed .

However, in February OpenAI told the Delhi High Court (HC) that it does not use the content of Indian media groups to train its AI chatbot .

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