OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta


Lau is joined by Uday Ruddarraju, the former head of infrastructure engineering at xAI and X, Mike Dalton, an infrastructure engineer from xAI, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta. “Our approach is to continue building and bringing together world-class infrastructure, research, and product teams to accelerate our mission and deliver the benefits of AI to hundreds of millions of people.” OpenAI’s scaling team manages the backend hardware and software systems and data centers, including Stargate—a new joint venture dedicated to building AI infrastructure—that allow its researchers to train cutting-edge foundation models.

Author: Will Knight, Zoë Schiffer


Published at: 2025-07-08 22:00:00

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