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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 12, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Rewrote Its Core Storage Layer in Rust as ChatGPT Passed a Billion Weekly Users
The company says the replacement is six times more efficient on processor use and fifteen times more efficient on memory, on a platform now holding more than 500 petabytes across nearly 40 regions.
OpenAI has published an account of Habitat, the online storage platform behind ChatGPT, describing its path from a client-side Python library built for GPTs at DevDay in 2023 into a globally distributed system. The post states that Habitat…
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