OpenAI has promoted Indian-origin tech leader Uday Ruddaraju to the role of CTO of Compute, a year after Ruddaraju joined OpenAI after leaving his position as head of infrastructure engineering at XAI.“My first 12 months at OpenAI have been incredibly rewarding. Our Compute team has worked tirelessly to bring capability online quickly and reliably, while building deep systems across compute, networks and storage, and doing the ML work required to train frontier models like GPT‑5.6. As we grow, the problems only get tougher, requiring us to push the boundaries and innovate at (literally) every layer of the stack,” Ruddaraju announced.“We’re on a mission to build the world’s largest compute footprint so frontier AI can reach everyone and every workflow. We have a very exciting compute ramp and roadmap coming. There’s a lot to build for large-scale distributed systems, hardware, manufacturing, and data centers spanning civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering,” his post read.
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Uday Ruddaraju’s career made headlines because he did his graduation not from any IIT or NIT but from India. He studied Computer Science from Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. While in college, he got an internship at Amazon Web Services. He then moved to the United States to pursue a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.From 2013 to 2018, he worked at eBay, then he joined Robinhood and then xAI. His resignation from XAI again made headlines as he was one of the top 5 poachers from XAI to OpenAI.Ruddaraju wrote in his farewell message, “Thank you to @elonmusk and everyone at xAI for the rare opportunity to help build something truly groundbreaking with Colossus. Being a part of this bold mission and seeing from the inside what relentless focus and execution really looks like was a privilege. Reporting on Elon and learning directly from him was definitely the best part of working at xAI.” “Jensen Huang was right, Elon and his teams are unique in what they can accomplish. “Grateful to have played a small role in shaping the future of AI computing,” his message read.