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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
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Several other executives are said to be currently overseeing OpenAI’s data center strategy, including Uday Ruddarraju, who leads the company’s data center team; Brent Mayo, who leads the data center build and delivery program; and Spas Lazarov, a veteran of the data center and energy industries, who leads all data center engineering.
Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, left the company last week, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Approximately a month before those departures, the company also lost Fidji Simo , the company’s de facto second-in-command (Simo served as product and business chief and reported directly to CEO Sam Altman).
In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone’s departure, OpenAI said it had “recently reorganized” its “infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work. In July, the company lost its “head of ethics,” Chloé Bakalar, and, last week, it was reported that the company had disbanded its preparedness team, a unit dedicated to assessing whether the company’s AI models could result in catastrophic risks.
Lightcap said he would be “starting something new” but hasn’t given details on what that new project entails.
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- Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, left the company last week, the Wall Street Journal has reported .
- In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone’s departure, OpenAI said it had “recently reorganized” its “infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work.
- Several other executives are said to be currently overseeing OpenAI’s data center strategy, including Uday Ruddarraju, who leads the company’s data center team; Brent Mayo, who leads the data center build and…
- Lightcap said he would be “starting something new” but hasn’t given details on what that new project entails.
- Approximately a month before those departures, the company also lost Fidji Simo , the company’s de facto second-in-command (Simo served as product and business chief and reported directly to CEO Sam Altman).
- In July, the company lost its “head of ethics,” Chloé Bakalar, and, last week, it was reported that the company had disbanded its preparedness team, a unit dedicated to assessing whether the company’s AI models could…
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