Assistants Playground/API is currently extremely slow and it responds with empty messages

Hello everyone,

This is my first post, so if I’ve posted in the wrong place or made any mistakes, please let me know.

I’m trying to test an assistant in the Playground. I’ve tried a couple of models, but every single time it responds with an empty message. The weird thing is that last week both the Playground and the API worked pretty well with a latency within the 10s range.

I’m also using the Assistants API from a Python platform, which worked fine last week, but now the responses are only “\n\n” characters - so it now returns only newlines.

Initially, I thought something had changed in the source code, but I’ve checked and nothing has changed.

It was only when I checked the Assistant Playground and saw it being extremely slow and responding with empty messages that I decided to create this post.

Looking at the https://status.openai.com/ it seems that everything is up and running right now.

Does anyone else have issues with the Assistants Playground not working nor even the Assistants API, currently?

Thank you,
Nicu