December 26, 2024:
Major Service Outage Hits OpenAIs ChatGPT - OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora, and APIs experienced a significant outage, affecting many users as services became inaccessible. This issue, linked to an unspecified upstream provider, emerged around 1:30 p.m. ET, resulting in high error rates. The previous outage on December 11 stemmed from a telemetry component that overused resources.
Meanwhile, The Information revealed details about OpenAI's collaboration with Microsoft. Access to OpenAI's AI models depends on reaching financial gains of $100 billion. OpenAI aims for profitability and sets a $100 billion revenue target by 2029.
