Although OpenAI hasn't released a public company statement, President Greg Brockman did say on Twitter/X that Katti would be taking over OpenAI's compute infrastructure planning and building, helping to scale up OpenAI's backend to power future services. The move follows news just last week that Katti's direct report, Saurabh Kulkarni , has left his role as vice president of data center AI product management at Intel. The unconfirmed report claims Kulkarni is headed to AMD.
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. pic.twitter.com/GkZ5yHctBO November 10, 2025
Although CEO Lip Bu-Tan taking on the AI chief role shows his commitment and seriousness of the position, losing such a key position at this time is a poor look for Intel. It has struggled to remain relevant in the consumer and data center CPU space for several generations of hardware, and though having the US government on its shareholder list does give it some serious backing, its identity in the new AI world isn't yet clear. Its NPUs are capable, but not standouts, and it has yet to secure a major customer for its cutting-edge silicon.
Katti is biting off a lot with the new OpenAI position, too. With hundreds of billions in infrastructure promised, Katti is coming on board at the time of one of the largest rollouts of hardware and investment dollars the world has ever seen. He'll be overseeing some of the largest projects ever envisaged, and the challenges when it comes to finding the money , chips, power , and water to manage them are far from trivial. Perhaps government backstops wouldn't be such a bad plan after all.
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