Overview
- OpenAI announced Wednesday that Uday Ruddarraju, who became CTO of Compute in July, will run both the compute and infrastructure units and replace Sachin Katti in the operational lead.
- Sachin Katti said he will step back from his operational role and remain with OpenAI as an adviser, with his last operational day set for November 15.
- Ruddarraju’s remit folds data centers, GPU clusters and hardware work into a single organization and draws on his prior role building large GPU clusters at xAI.
- The leadership change comes as OpenAI increases its projected compute spending to roughly $750 billion through 2030 and advances multi‑gigawatt data center projects and chip and vendor deals.
- The shift preserves Katti’s commercial relationships while concentrating decision‑making, a move meant to speed deployments but also to manage rising costs, local pushback over facilities and continued turnover in the infrastructure team.