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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

OpenAI 23 October 2026, 16:45

OpenAI scaled Habitat to support reliable multi-tenancy and global caching for ChatGPT users using Azure Cosmos DB. It delivered 12× faster reads. As a result, OpenAI was able to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users with improved storage performance.

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