OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced a widespread global outage on June 10, 2025, with India and the United States reporting the highest number of disruptions. Users across both countries were unable to receive responses from the AI chatbot, with most encountering error messages like “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong” and “A network error occurred.”

Key Details of the ChatGPT Outage

According to Downdetector, the outage began around 3:00 PM IST, with over 800 complaints logged in India alone. In India, 88% of users faced issues with ChatGPT not responding to queries, 8% had problems with the mobile app, and 3% experienced API-related issues. In the US, 93% of users reported chatbot issues, followed by 7% app-related complaints and 1% API errors.

OpenAI confirmed the outage via its official status page, stating that both ChatGPT and Sora were affected by elevated error rates and latency. The company is actively investigating the cause, though no estimated resolution time was given. Users were encouraged to check OpenAI’s status page for real-time updates.

Social Media Reaction & Historical Context

The disruption sparked a wave of frustration and humorous memes online, highlighting the growing global reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT. Some users reported partial restoration within an hour, though access remained inconsistent for a time.

This isn’t the first major outage for OpenAI. In December 2024, a similar incident was caused by an upstream provider issue. OpenAI, headquartered in the US, offers AI services such as ChatGPT, Sora, DALL·E, and more.