CEO publicly apologizes! ChatGPT and API services have experienced severe downtime, and competitors have also collapsed. According to data from the network monitoring website Downdector, starting around 22:00 Beijing time on Wednesday, a large number of netizens have reported that OpenAI's ChatGPT and API (application program interfaces provided to developers to build third-party services) are all unusable. The entire malfunction lasted for approximately 100 minutes.