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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

OpenAI detailed how it scaled its Habitat online storage system to serve more than 1 billion ChatGPT users, using reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads. The engineering account, published as Part II on the OpenAI Blog, describes the infrastructure work behind ChatGPT's storage layer.

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