OpenAI Details Habitat Storage Platform Powering 1B+ Users

OpenAI's engineering post details how its storage platform Habitat scaled to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users, with its Python services handling over 20 million requests per second at peak before a Rust rewrite.

2026-09-12 ~ 2026-09-12 · 2 related posts

• OpenAI's storage platform Habitat grew 10x YoY; Python service peaked at 20M requests/sec — xeophon · 2026-09-12
• OpenAI details how Python-based storage platform Habitat scaled to 1 billion ChatGPT users — TheMoonMidas · 2026-09-12