Who is Sachin Katti? IIT-Bombay gradudate who ditched Intel as AI chief to join OpenAI
Posted on: Nov 11, 2025 19:48 IST | Posted by: Livemint
Intel Chief Technology and AI ship's officer Sachin Katti has left wing the come off shaper and united OpenAI to work on the ChatGPT maker's compute infrastructure efforts. Katti who is a alumini of IIT Bombay had been working at the chip maker for over 4 years and was reponsible for leading Intel's overall artificial intelligence strategy and AI product roadmap as the chipmaker faces increased competition from likes of AMD and Nvidia.
OpenAI Chairman Greg Brockman confirmed the hiring of Katti in a post on X, writing, “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”
Meanwhile, Intel has confirmed that CEO Lip-Bu Tan will be taking on Katti's role.
“AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities, and we are focused on executing our technology and product road map across emerging AI workloads,” Intel said in a statement
Notably, Katti was promoted to lead the AI efforts at Intel earlier in the year. Katti's new employer OpenAI has also been previously reported to be working on its own chips and is also an important buyer for the new kinds of chips needed to run and train its AI models.
Who is Sachin Katti?
Katti has a B Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. He also holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prior to joinig Intel, Katti was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. During his stint at Stanford, Katti was distinguished for his accolades, including the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention) and the William Bennett Prize for Best Paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Katti is also the founder of Kumu Networks - an AI startup which works on self-interference cancellation technology. He founded the company in 2011 and his LinkedIn profile states that he is still involved with it as a co-founder in 2025.
The techie also founded a startup called Uhana in 2016 developed advanced AI solutions for mobile network optimization. It was later acquired by VMware in 2019.
As per Intel's page dedicated to Katti, the techie is also an influential leader in telecommunication industry and has co-chaired the Technical Steering Committee of the O-RAN Alliance and was instrumental in driving the adoption of open and intelligent radio access networks globally.
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