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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
OpenAI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- OpenAI upgraded its Habitat storage platform to handle 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22 million requests per second.
- Why it matters
- Infrastructure engineers scaling distributed systems need to understand how OpenAI manages massive concurrent user loads and storage demands.
- Watch out
- The post provides no technical details about architecture changes, scaling methods, or whether these numbers represent current or projected capacity.
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