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OpenAI having an outage with 5.6 sol?

OpenAI is experiencing an outage affecting its Codex product, with users receiving 'Selected model is at capacity' errors for about 30 minutes, according to a Hacker News post by user rcleveng. The company's status page currently shows no issues.

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| hide | past | favorite | discuss For about 30 minutes now I keep getting the following from codex: Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model. Anyone else seeing this? Their status page looks like everything is fine at the moment.

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