Intel AI Chief Sachin Katti quits; joins ChatGPT maker, OpenAI President shares ‘Welcome post'

Intel AI chief and chief technology officer Sachin Katti has left to join ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. In a statement, the chip maker said that its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, will now oversee the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) division. “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 said. “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 company added.


Katti, who joined Intel four years ago and previously taught at Stanford University, was promoted to chief technology officer and chief AI officer earlier this year. His exit marks another leadership change under Tan, who took over as Intel’s CEO in March and has since restructured the company.



Intel has been working to catch up in the AI chip market, where Nvidia and TSMC currently dominate. While its central processors power some AI systems, the company has yet to produce a competitive data center AI chip.


Tan has been reshaping Intel’s leadership, expanding executive roles and hiring new talent from outside the company as he attempts to steer a turnaround at the struggling chipmaker.

OpenAI President welcomes Sachin Katti to OpenAI

Sharing a post on X, OpenAI President Greg Brockman said:


“Welcome @sk7037 to OpenAI!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.”


Katti responded, writing:


“Excited for the opportunity to work with @gdb (Greg Brockman), @sama (Sam Altman) and the @OpenAI team on building out the compute infrastructure for AGI! Very grateful for the tremendous opportunity and experience at Intel over the last 4 years leading networking, edge computing and AI. Privilege of a lifetime to have worked closely with @LipBuTan1, @PGelsinger and @nickmckeown1.”