Intel AI Chief Leaves for OpenAI After Less Than a Year in Role

Intel Corp. Chief Technology and AI Officer Sachin Katti has left the company to take a role at OpenAI, where he’ll work on the startup’s infrastructure efforts.

Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan will take on Katti’s role, the chipmaker said Monday in a statement.

“AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities, and we are focused on executing our technology and product road map across emerging AI workloads,” the company said in the statement.

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman posted on social media that Katti will join the company to work “on designing and building our compute infrastructure.” ...