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OpenAI's compute infrastructure chief is set to depart, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The departure of the executive leading OpenAI's compute infrastructure could affect the timing of its data center and chip build-outs.
NewswireSlicast · October 15, 2026 at 16:44 UTC · US · Source: Magzter
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OpenAI's head of computing capacity is leaving the company next month after about a year, the latest leadership change at a unit driving hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the coming years.

Sachin Katti joined OpenAI in late 2025 to rein in its ambitious Stargate data center effort, which got off to a slow start after the company failed to reach a deal with SoftBank and Oracle. Instead, OpenAI forged deals with the firms separately.

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