OpenAI is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Audio and Embeddings and 1 more component, which began 49 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 27, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance)
- investigating May 27, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Audio (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance)
- identified May 27, 2026, 03:45 PM UTC
Status: Identified We are still implementing the mitigation. Affected components Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance)
- monitoring May 27, 2026, 03:59 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance)