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OpenAI computing chief Sachin Katti set to leave in November 2026

The Wall Street Journal reports former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju is set to take over OpenAI’s computing strategy.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Sachin Katti, OpenAI’s head of computing capacity, is leaving in November 2026 after about a year. Katti helped secure a 10-gigawatt data center lease with SB Energy in August. Katti says he is leaving to build something new and will continue as an adviser after November 15. Former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju is set to take over computing strategy.

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The Wall Street JournalOpenAI Computing Chief to Depart1h
BloombergOpenAI Appoints Uday Ruddarraju to Lead Data Center, Compute Operations2h
Dina Bass@dinabassOpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infra/compute unit, replacing Sachin Katti in the the latest leadership shakeup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/openai-names-uday-ruddarraju-to-lead-data-center-computing-unit2h
Techmeme@TechmemeOpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses (@dinabass / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1h
Sachin Katti@sk7037After an incredible year at OpenAI, I'm moving on to build something new in a few weeks. We secured double-digit GWs of compute across Ohio, Portsmouth, Georgia, Trainium and other projects with amazing partners including NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AWS and CoreWeave. We also got GPT-Infra off the ground and going in just three months. My journey from Stanford professor to entrepreneur, Intel business leader and CTO, and now scaling AI infrastructure at OpenAI has given me a unique perspective across the entire compute stack. AI is reinventing computing. Excited to bring everything I've learned together to build what's next. Grateful to the incredible OpenAI team. I'll continue as an advisor after November 15. More soon!1h
Katie Roof@Katie_RoofRT @dinabass: OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infra/compute unit, replacing Sachin Katti in the the lates…30m
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    6 Sources

    The Wall Street JournalOpenAI Computing Chief to Depart1h
    BloombergOpenAI Appoints Uday Ruddarraju to Lead Data Center, Compute Operations2h
    Dina Bass@dinabassOpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infra/compute unit, replacing Sachin Katti in the the latest leadership shakeup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/openai-names-uday-ruddarraju-to-lead-data-center-computing-unit2h
    Techmeme@TechmemeOpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses (@dinabass / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1h
    Sachin Katti@sk7037After an incredible year at OpenAI, I'm moving on to build something new in a few weeks. We secured double-digit GWs of compute across Ohio, Portsmouth, Georgia, Trainium and other projects with amazing partners including NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AWS and CoreWeave. We also got GPT-Infra off the ground and going in just three months. My journey from Stanford professor to entrepreneur, Intel business leader and CTO, and now scaling AI infrastructure at OpenAI has given me a unique perspective across the entire compute stack. AI is reinventing computing. Excited to bring everything I've learned together to build what's next. Grateful to the incredible OpenAI team. I'll continue as an advisor after November 15. More soon!1h
    Katie Roof@Katie_RoofRT @dinabass: OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infra/compute unit, replacing Sachin Katti in the the lates…30m
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