# OpenAI — Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2021-01-25T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes
- Record: https://forck.live/items/938-scaling-kubernetes-to-7-500-nodes
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: GPT-3, CLIP, DALL·E

OpenAI scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes to support infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, as well as for small-scale iterative research.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes:

> We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.

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