Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

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Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

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2026-09-11 10:00 · OpenAI News
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

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