India, July 19 -- OpenAI has promoted Indian-origin tech leader Uday Ruddarraju to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Compute - about a year after he joined the company from Elon Musk's xAI.

"I'm excited to share that I'm stepping into the CTO, Compute role at OpenAI," Ruddarraju announced in a LinkedIn post.

Reflecting on his first year at OpenAI, the techie added, "My first 12 months at OpenAI have been incredibly rewarding. Our Compute team has worked relentlessly to bring capacity online quickly and reliably, while doing the deep systems across compute, network and storage, and ML work needed to train frontier models like GPT-5.6."

Looking ahead, he said OpenAI is focused on significantly expanding its AI infrastructure....