OpenAI details how it scaled ChatGPT storage with multi-tenancy and global caching for 12x faster reads
OpenAI News · rss · 2026-10-24
OpenAI published part two of its infrastructure series on scaling online storage for over 1 billion ChatGPT users.
- Explains how the Habitat storage system achieved reliable multi-tenancy at scale
- Combines global caching with Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12x faster reads
- A rare first-party engineering deep dive from a frontier AI lab
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