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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

OpenAI 11 September 2026, 10:00

OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform for ChatGPT. It now serves 1 billion ChatGPT users and handles 22M requests per second. This scaling enables OpenAI to support much higher request volume and global availability for ChatGPT storage.

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