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OpenAI Confirms ChatGPT Image Generation Outage, Reports Full Recovery

July 8, 2026 at 00:46 EDT

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Media Generation
Infra & Chips

On July 7, 2026, OpenAI confirmed via its official status page that ChatGPT's image generation had been hit by an incident labeled "Elevated errors with image generation," and later reported a full recovery after implementing a mitigation. Text-based conversations kept working for most users, while image generation requests returned errors, took unusually long, or failed outright.

July 7 · OpenAI Status

ChatGPT Outage Hits Image Generation Worldwide

OpenAI confirmed "elevated error rates" across ChatGPT and other services. Image generation was the most visible casualty — while text chat kept working for many. Core functionality was later restored.

Image Gen

Errors, failed requests & long delays — the hardest-hit feature

100M+

Weekly active users in India — ~11% of the global base

Restored

Core services back by July 8; some workspace fixes ongoing

Uptime by service

Availability has generally held high — the outage was a brief dip in a strong record.

99.86%

ChatGPT

99.99%

API

99.96%

Codex

99.96%

FedRAMP

Columns scaled across the 99.8%–100% range to show relative dips.

Still working

Text-based conversations for many users
Core services recovered within a day

Disrupted

Image generation, older chats, Custom GPTs
Codex, workspace analytics, conversation search
Problems especially noted in FedRAMP workspaces

The takeaway

Another entry in a recurring series of disruptions — a reminder of the risk in depending on a single provider.

Developers and analysts pointed to diversifying AI tool stacks, including backup generators, to stay productive through outages.

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