OpenAI evolved Habitat into a global storage platform for ChatGPT users.
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8 tracked signals on storage.
OpenAI scaled Habitat storage system to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT's billion users
NVIDIA launches cuObject and SCADA Server SDK for faster AI storage access
Hugging Face Xet uses content-defined chunking to upload only changed file bytes
“Think Git, but for pieces of a file instead of whole files, and there's nothing to install.”
SageMaker HyperPod with Qumulo achieves cross-region training at near-identical throughput without data migration
“A HyperPod cluster running in a different Region from its data reaches the same throughput as a cluster co-located with the data (115–117 samples/sec) with no additional data orchestration needed.”
Databricks launches a storage ecosystem to govern enterprise data wherever it resides.
NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage accelerates GPU-storage data paths across cloud and on-premises platforms
Unity Catalog managed tables now offer configurable storage placement and ownership controls in 2026