Indian-origin tech leader Uday Ruddaraju has been promoted to OpenAI's CTO of Compute, a year after joining the company and contributing to training advanced models like GPT-5.6.
Ruddaraju was previously at xAI
Jul 19, 2026
04:25 pm
What's the storyOpenAI has appointed Indian-origin tech leader Uday Ruddaraju as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Compute.
The appointment comes just a year after he joined the company from xAI, where he was the head of Infrastructure Engineering.
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