Sachin Katti announces he is leaving OpenAI’s compute role to build something new
Sachin Katti @sk7037X
Why it matters
First-hand departure note from OpenAI’s compute chief (~190k views), listing the compute sites and partners secured during his year at OpenAI.
Summary
Katti says that after “an incredible year at OpenAI” he is “moving on to build something new in a few weeks”. He says OpenAI secured “double-digit GWs of compute across Ohio, Portsmouth, Georgia, Trainium and other projects” with NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, AWS and CoreWeave, and got “GPT-Infra off the ground and going in just three months”. He will continue as an adviser after Nov 15. About 190k views by the evening of Oct 15 (fxtwitter).
Archived text
After 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!