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OpenAI details Habitat storage serving 1 billion ChatGPT users
OpenAI describes how Habitat developed from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform. The company says it serves 1 billion ChatGPT users and handles 22 million requests per second; the announcement does not define the user metric or request measurement window.
Key points
- Habitat began as a Python library, according to OpenAI's engineering account.
- OpenAI describes its current form as a globally distributed storage platform.
- The company reports serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22 million requests per second.
Why it matters
For infrastructure teams, the account offers a large-scale reference for evaluating storage architecture. The reported throughput needs workload and reliability context before it can inform capacity planning elsewhere.
What to watch
Check the engineering detail for whether throughput is peak or sustained, which operations it counts, and what latency and reliability accompany that load.
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Sources
- OpenAI2026-09-11 · Global source