Sachin Katti

Head of Industrial Compute at OpenAI, focused on AI infrastructure buildout and compute supply. He previously served as Intel’s chief technology and AI officer and was a Stanford professor working on networking, wireless systems, and applied AI infrastructure.

Frontier AI Has Become a Gigawatt-Scale Industrial Infrastructure Race

In a Stanford MS&E seminar on the economics of the AI supercycle, OpenAI infrastructure executive Sachin Katti argued that frontier AI has become an industrial systems problem, not a GPU procurement problem. Katti said usable compute now depends on synchronizing chips, memory, networking, power, cooling, buildings, land, suppliers and operators at gigawatt scale. His broader case was that OpenAI’s model and revenue ambitions depend on how quickly it can turn that whole chain into reliable infrastructure for training, inference and agentic workloads.

Stanford OnlineMay 27, 202620 min read