OpenAI scales Habitat storage platform to 1B ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second
OpenAI News · rss · 2026-09-11
OpenAI's engineering blog details the evolution of Habitat, its internal storage platform: from a Python library to a globally distributed system now serving over 1 billion ChatGPT users and handling 22 million requests per second.
The post covers how the team rapidly scaled online storage, offering a first-hand engineering retrospective on building storage at ChatGPT scale.
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