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title: Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
link: https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one
source: openai-com
published: 2026-09-11T10:00:00Z
updated: 2026-09-11T10:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-10-19T01:26:53.998049939Z
labels:
- engineering
summary: 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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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.