OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses
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Consolidating infrastructure and compute under a dedicated leader signals that hyperscale AI org charts are being rebuilt around data center expansion as a core business line. If you're a vendor or partner in this stack, expect more centralized decision-making and longer, more integrated planning cycles.
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