Subj : ChatGPT has now fixed a major outage  and reopened its Plus subsc
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Date : Thu Dec 14 2023 12:45:05

ChatGPT has now fixed a major outage  and reopened its Plus subscriptions

Date:
Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:40:05 +0000

Description:
After a serious outage, ChatGPT is back online  just as OpenAI reopens 
ChatGPT Plus subscriptions.

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 ChatGPT is back online after suffering a major outage, according to the 
OpenAI status log (as spotted by Bloomberg ). Its far from the first time the 
chatbot has gone down in recent months, and it comes amid increased 
competition from Googles brand-new Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool. 

OpenAI, ChatGPTs developer, posted the note on its website stating that the 
companys chatbot was down for just under 40 minutes yesterday, between 5:32pm 
and 6:10pm PST. Outage indicator website Downdetector logged almost 3,000 
reports that ChatGPT had crashed, coinciding with OpenAIs report. 

Looking back through OpenAIs incident report page, its far from the only time 
that ChatGPT has gone down recently. November was a particularly error-prone 
month, with another major outage on November 8, while a whole host of OpenAI 
services were inaccessible on November 11. 

The latest crash comes at a potentially challenging time for OpenAI, as 
Google has just launched its Gemini large language model (LLM) that will 
power a range of AI services for the search giant. Yet Gemini hasnt got off 
to the best start, as complaints have mounted over its abilities and Googles 
decision to fake a hands-on video of the tool. ChatGPT Plus resumes 
subscriptions (Image credit: OpenAI) 

Just as ChatGPT was coming back online, OpenAIs CEO Sam Altman shared some 
more positive news on X (formerly Twitter), noting that the company had 
re-enabled ChatGPT Plus subscriptions. Thanks for your patience while we 
found more GPUs, Altman added dryly. 

ChatGPT Plus is OpenAIs subscription service. For $20 / 16 a month, users 
gain access to a more advanced LLM (powered by GPT-4 rather than GPT-3.5, 
which runs the regular version of ChatGPT), faster response times and 
priority access to new features and improvements. 

ChatGPT Plus had become so overrun in recent months that OpenAI was forced to 
pause subscriptions . According to Altman, a surge in use after OpenAIs 
DevDay developer conference exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure 
everyone has a great experience. 

With the rise of Google Gemini, you might be taking this moment to consider 
whether ChatGPT Plus is worth it. Google says Gemini can beat GPT-4 in a 
majority of tests, yet thats with its high-end Ultra model, which isnt 
available yet. So for now, ChatGPT Plus is still probably the best AI chatbot 
you can get  at least until Gemini Ultra launches. You might also like 
ChatGPT explained: everything you need to know about the AI chatbot What is 
Google Gemini? Everything you need to know about Googles next-gen AI ChatGPT 
has become so popular it's had to pause Plus subscriptions



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-has-now-fi
xed-a-major-outage-and-reopened-its-plus-subscriptions


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