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OpenAI scales Habitat storage to 1B ChatGPT users, 22M req/s

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OpenAI detailed how it evolved its Habitat storage platform from a Python library into a globally distributed system serving over 1 billion ChatGPT users and handling 22 million requests per second. The company described the scaling journey in a blog post dated September 11, 2026.

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    Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

    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.