OpenAI's Agent Logs Estimated at 2PB, Sparking Discussion

OpenAI researchers' mention of petabyte-scale agent activity logs sparked estimates that the company holds around 2PB of logs, i.e. quadrillions of tokens. Discussants noted that 1PB exceeds all published books by over 10 times, highlighting the staggering scale of AI log data.

2026-09-27 ~ 2026-09-27 · 2 related posts

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