India, April 20 -- A sudden outage that impacted both ChatGPT and OpenAI Codex services on April 20 2026 created problems for thousands of users who relied on these services across the globe. The problem caused extensive user reports from various locations, which included India, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The users experienced problems with chat access and login functions and essential platform features, which made them doubt the reliability of AI-based services.

What Happened to ChatGPT and Codex?

Multiple OpenAI services experienced a worldwide technical outage that caused their systems to become nonoperational. The two services, ChatGPT and Codex, both experienced downtime together, which indicates that their systems ...