Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT

Updates

• resolved

  All impacted services have now fully recovered.

  Aug 20, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

• monitoring

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

  Aug 20, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

• investigating

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

  Aug 20, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

• investigating

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

  Aug 20, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC