Uday Ruddarraju, Head of Infrastructure Engineering at Elon Musk'sAI Company xai He resigned from his position. Having been with the company for just a year, Ruddarraju played a key role in the construction of Colossus, a massive supercomputer with over 200,000 GPUs, and trained one of Xai's latest AI models, the Grok 3. In a post on Tuesday's X (formerly Twitter), he confirmed the exit from the company. In the post he said, “Jensen Fan was right, Elon and his team are singular in what they can achieve. I'm grateful that it helped a little in shaping the future of AI from within.”Looking back at his time at Xai, he said, “After an unforgettable ride, I decided to move on from @Xai, and yesterday was my last day. When I first joined, I thought we were absolutely enthralled with the idea that we could deploy a 100K GPU in four months.
Uday ruddarraju thanks Elon Musk and joins Openai
In the post, Ruddarraju thanked Elon Musk and the Xai team for giving them the opportunity to contribute to the company's infrastructure work. “Thank you to everyone at @elonmusk and Xai for the unusual opportunity to help you build something really basic with Colossus. It was a privilege to see what a ruthless focus and execution really looked like from within,” he said. “Reporting to Elon and learning directly from him was the best part of working at Zai,” he added.
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He also expressed his gratitude to the infrastructure and research team, saying, “We would like to thank everyone on the infrastructure team for meeting impossible expectations and to the entire research team for your partnership. You are the best!Shortly after leaving Xai, Ruddarraju confirmed he was on Openai. The news was first shared by Openai President Greg Brockman in an X post, and welcomed Ruddarraju along with three other engineers. Ruddarraju reposted the announcement with the comment “Greg Brockman!”
