OpenAI restructured its infrastructure leadership for the Stargate AI supercomputer initiative. The company will now rent server capacity from cloud providers instead of building and owning data centers. Financing challenges drove this strategic shift.
The Stargate project is a multi-phase partnership with Microsoft to secure computing power for future AI models. OpenAI reorganized operations into three groups focusing on technical design, commercial partnerships, and facility operations.
Former Intel executive Sachin Katti leads the new infrastructure organization. Katti joined the company in late 2025.