April 1, 2025:
OpenAI Faces Delays Amid Soaring Demand - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that ChatGPT's new image-generation feature is causing delays and slowdowns due to high demand. The tool is praised for its style-recreation abilities, leading to a user surge, reaching 500 million weekly and 20 million paid subscribers, a significant rise from late 2024 figures.
To handle the demand, OpenAI postponed the feature for free users and stopped video generation for new Sora media suite users. Staff are working overtime to stabilize operations.
