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# Sachin Katti announces he is leaving OpenAI's compute role to build something new

Sachin Katti (@sk7037), X, 2026-10-14.
Source: https://x.com/sk7037/status/2110401792811159643

## 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!

Archived 2026-10-15 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 190,416 views, 1,099 likes, 36 reposts, 101 replies (at fetch time)

## Cited in

- 2026-10-14: [OpenAI compute chief Sachin Katti to leave on Nov 15](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-14-openai-katti-departs-ruddarraju-leads-compute/)