The departure seems amicable, with Intel thanking him for his contributions and wishing him good luck ahead — while noting that their AI efforts will now be led by CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
Intel have struggled with developing proper AI infrastructure products to rival the likes of Nvidia, and while they do produce chips for Copilot PCs, they are not making inroads in data centers.
The main focus for Katti at OpenAI will be «designing and building our compute infrastructure» to power their AGI research, writes Greg Brockman on x.com.
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