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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI's in-house storage platform passes 500 petabytes and 70 million requests a second as the company plans for exabyte scale
Habitat, which serves ChatGPT and Codex in about 40 regions, grew more than tenfold in a year, and two engineers rewrote it from Python to Rust using OpenAI's own tools.
OpenAI is building its own exabyte-scale storage to keep ChatGPT running as usage grows, and physical space has become a constraint, the Telegram channel AI Post reported. The system it is outgrowing is Habitat, OpenAI's online storage plat…
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