OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman announced that Sachin Katti, a senior technology leader formerly at Intel, is joining OpenAI.
Brockman shared the update on X, saying 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.”
According to Reuters, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will now oversee the chipmaker’s AI and advanced technologies efforts following Katti’s departure. “We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best. Lip-Bu will lead the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups, working closely with the team,” Intel wrote in a statement.
Katti previously served as senior vice president, chief technology and AI officer, and GM of the Network and Edge Group (NEX) at Intel Corporation, where he led the company’s overall AI strategy, product roadmap, and research efforts through Intel Labs. He was also responsible for strengthening Intel’s engagement with startups and developers, as well as advancing networking and edge technologies.
Before joining Intel, Katti had an accomplished academic career as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, conducting pioneering research in wireless communications, networking, and applied coding theory.
His work earned him several honours, including the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (honourable mention) and the William Bennett Prize for Best Paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Beyond academia, Katti is a successful entrepreneur and industry influencer. He co-founded Kumu Networks, known for its breakthroughs in self-interference cancellation technology, and later Uhana, which built AI-driven solutions for mobile network optimisation and was later acquired by VMware.
Katti holds a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and a BTech in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay.
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