OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute business
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OpenAI has a new head of data centers and compute.
According to Bloomberg (text paywalled; relayed by Techmeme and CryptoBriefing), Ruddarraju joined OpenAI in 2025 and has been chief technology officer for compute since July; he will now lead the company's infrastructure and compute units. CryptoBriefing reports that he previously led infrastructure engineering at xAI and took part in building the Colossus supercomputer with more than 250,000 GPUs. The WSJ headline (text paywalled) reports the departure of OpenAI's computing chief.