OpenAI builds Pando, a Git backend for its monorepo that serves nearly a petabyte a day as agent usage grows
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 3 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra186 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5125 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon216 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7155 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 125 days before it.
Key facts
- Push latency cut ~80%; nearly 1 PB of Git data served per day (OpenAI)
- Motivation: Git capacity growing with agent usage
- @OpenAIDevs post ~944k views; HN 240 points
What happened
Written from OpenAI’s X post; the blog page returned HTTP 403 to us.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- OpenAI: Scaling Git at OpenAIopenai.com, official
- @OpenAIDevs on Xx.com, official
Reactions
- Hacker News discussionnews.ycombinator.com, discussion
Changes
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