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OpenAI describes how it scaled online storage for ChatGPT, Part II

According to the headline and snippet, OpenAI has published a second part on how it scaled storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users. The post describes Habitat, OpenAI's system, being scaled with reliable multi-tenancy and global caching, along with Azure Cosmos DB. The snippet says these changes deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT. The source is OpenAI News, and the full post provides the technical details.

Source: OpenAI News · openai.com Published 2026-10-23T17:00:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-23T17:18:33+00:00
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According to the headline and snippet, OpenAI has published a second part on how it scaled storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users. The post describes Habitat, OpenAI's system, being scaled with reliable multi-tenancy and global caching, along with Azure Cosmos DB. The snippet says these changes deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT. The source is OpenAI News, and the full post provides the technical details.

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Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

Engineers building large consumer services can use this as a reference for handling storage at very high user counts, especially around multi-tenancy and caching. Users would feel the effect as faster ChatGPT responses if the reported read speedup holds at scale. Teams should read the full post to see which parts apply to their own systems and what trade-offs OpenAI reports.

Signal Strength 93% Technical label SOURCE-BACKED Public Interest 54 Category BIG MOVE Reader Depth PRACTICAL Event context 1 source

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Recognizable Entity Score 98 Practical Impact Score 20 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 34 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 67

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