Microsoft-backed OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT was back up after an outage affected thousands of users, the company said on Friday.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Friday night it is facing an issue that has resulted in its popular chatbot ChatGPT being unavailable. The company said in a statement on its website that it was investigating the issue and working to restore functionality as soon as possible.

OpenAI's widely-used chatbot, ChatGPT, supported by Microsoft, was reinstated following an outage that affected numerous users, the company announced. OpenAI published a statement on its site, declaring,

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