In a surprising turn of events, ChatGPT is grappling with a partial outage this Tuesday morning, as confirmed by OpenAI.

According to OpenAI’s status page, the incident not only affects ChatGPT but also their Sora platform and APIs. The company is currently investigating the issue that has been plaguing users.

Reports began surfacing about five hours ago, and frustration has mounted, with many users turning to Downdetector—owned by the parent company of Mashable—to voice their concerns.

Social media lit up as users encountered the infuriating message: "too many concurrent requests" every time they tried to access ChatGPT.

At 8:35 a.m. ET, a glimmer of hope emerged! OpenAI revealed that they identified the root cause of the outage and are actively working on a fix.

Stay tuned as this developing story unfolds and new updates roll in. Users are eagerly awaiting a full restoration of service!