Intel CEO made Katti the company’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer in April.
Sachin Katti, Intel’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer, is leaving the chipmaker for ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
Katti will work on building out OpenAI’s compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence, a theoretical form of AI akin to human intelligence, according to a post the executive published on the X social media network.
“Very grateful for the tremendous opportunity and experience at Intel over the last 4 years leading networking, edge computing and AI,” Katti said in his post.
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An Intel spokesperson confirmed Katti’s departure in a statement to CRN and said that Lip-Bu Tan, the chipmaker’s CEO, will take over leadership of the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups that was led by Katti.
“AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities, and we are focused on executing our technology and product roadmap across emerging AI workloads,” the representative said.
“We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best,” the spokesperson said at the beginning of the statement.
CRN has reached out to San Francisco-based OpenAI for comment.
OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman posted on X that he is “incredibly excited to work with him on designing and building our compute infrastructure, which will power our AGI research and scale its applications to benefit everyone.”
Tan appointed Katti to the role in April, adding to Katti’s responsibilities as leader of the Network and Edge Group, which he has done since early 2023, a little more than a year after he joined Intel.
Katti is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, where he has worked on several research projects related to technology, including one on “delivering visibility and operational automation for [machine learning] at the edge.”
He was previously co-founder and CEO of Kumu Networks, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that sought to revolutionize the way wireless systems are built, according to his LinkedIn account.
Other executives to announce their departure from Intel in recent days include former Global Channel Chief John Kalvin, Vice President of Data Center AI Product Management Saurabh Kulkarni and 25-year company veteran Rob Bruckner, whom Intel’s CEO appointed to lead the Platform Engineering Group.
