OPENAI ENGINEERS REVEAL HOW CHATGPT IMAGES HANDLED 100M NEW USERS IN ONE WEEK

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OpenAI engineers reveal how they managed the March launch of ChatGPT Images, which attracted 100 million new users generating 700 million images in the first week, peaking at 1 million new signups per hour during viral adoption in India. When their synchronous image generation system couldn't handle the unexpected load, the team quickly rewrote the entire architecture to an asynchronous model mid-launch.