Incident

Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

resolved
Incident ID
#7cbdbf2f
Impact
minor
Components
openai

Updates

  1. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 9:56 PM GMT+08:00

    We are investigating an issue causing some users to experience errors when using Thinking in ChatGPT.

  2. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 10:12 PM GMT+08:00

    We are investigating an issue causing some users to experience errors when using Thinking mode and Image Generation in ChatGPT.

  3. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 10:53 PM GMT+08:00

    We have implemented a mitigation for the issue for elevated errors for Thinking Mode and Image Generation in ChatGPT/ChatGPT Work

  4. resolved Aug 21, 2026, 12:51 AM GMT+08:00

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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