What Happened
OpenAI experienced an outage on July 11, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 30 minutes.
AI research company providing GPT models, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Whisper, and APIs for natural language processing, image generation, and speech recognition.
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 22:38 | Identified | Some OpenAI website content pages, including Help Center articles, are currently unavailable. Help Center search functionality is also unavailable, and the chatbot experience may be degraded. We ar... |
| 21:13 | Investigating | Some OpenAI website content pages, including Help Center articles, are currently unavailable. Help Center search functionality is also unavailable, and the chatbot experience may be degraded. We ar... |
| 06:35 | Investigating | We are investigating the issue for the listed services. |
| 07:06 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 30 minutes. OpenAI runs on Azure — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
OpenAI has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
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