"Katti replied with a post in which he declared himself "Excited for the opportunity to work with" Brockman, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and others at the company "on building out the compute infrastructure for AGI!" He also said he's very grateful for the tremendous opportunity and experience at Intel over the last 4 years leading networking, edge computing and AI,"
"Katti's departure is a terrible look for Intel, which has struggled to develop competitive AI accelerators to match those from established rivals Nvidia and AMD. Intel is also arguably behind hyperscalers like Google and AWS that developed their own AI silicon and probably trails Broadcom's ability to design AI hardware - a capability OpenAI apparently rates so highly it tapped the firm to build its own custom accelerators."
Sachin Katti, promoted to chief technology and AI officer in April, will leave Intel after six months to join OpenAI. He was one of CEO Lip Bu Tan's early March appointments. OpenAI president Greg Brockman welcomed Katti on X; Katti said he was "Excited for the opportunity to work with" Brockman, Sam Altman, and others "on building out the compute infrastructure for AGI" and thanked Intel for four years leading networking, edge computing, and AI. Lip Bu Tan will add leadership of Intel's AI efforts to his role. Intel has struggled to develop competitive AI accelerators versus Nvidia and AMD, lags hyperscalers and Broadcom, and its foundries lack a major AI customer. OpenAI appears to be losing billions each quarter but has committed tens of billions for datacenter builds, a consumer AI device, and AGI.
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