ChatGPT’s latest image generator — which has gone viral for its ability to generate uncanny recreations of Studio Ghibli art — is now available for everyone, after OpenAI initially delayed the rollout beyond its paid tiers following heavy demand.

ChatGPT is experiencing record growth after releasing a new AI image generation feature, according to OpenAI boss Sam Altman. The AI assistant has been adding 1 million new users an hour amid “biblical demand” for its GPT-4o, which is now available for free users of the app.

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot model designed to operate in a “conversational way.” It was launched on Nov. 30, 2022 as a sibling to OpenAI’s InstructGPT, which was trained to follow instructions more than have a dialogue with users.

ChatGPT went down again with a significant outage for users worldwide, with users jumping on Downdetector to report issues with one of the best AI chatbots. Tom's Guide tested ChatGPT, and it still worked, but based on the volume of users reporting the outage, it's clear something was wrong — it's resolved now.

OpenAI's ChatGPT saw record-breaking user growth following its latest rollout, causing GPU capacity challenges for the company.

ChatGPT was down for many on Monday (March 24), especially users in the US, where prompts were returning error messages across multiple models, including 4o and 03-mini.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the rollout of ChatGPT's viral new AI image features to free users would be delayed, citing

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), saw its revenue climb 30% in three months as ChatGPT's paid subscribers surpassed 20 million, up from 15.5 million at the end of 2024, according to The Information.

Millions of users worldwide were taken aback by a ChatGPT outage. The service from OpenAI ceased functioning and displayed an error message. What is behind this problem? What do you need to know? ChatGPT outage: Users worldwide report difficulties accessing ChatGPT,

OpenAI updated ChatGPT's content moderation policies to allow AI images depicting public figures, hateful symbols, and racial features.