Katti is one of Intel's new CEO Lip Bu Tan's early appointments after taking over the chip giant. When Katti announced that he would join OpenAI, Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI, publicly welcomed Katti on the social platform X and expressed his expectation for future cooperation.

Katti said in response that he was "very excited to have the opportunity to work with Brockman, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and other members of the company to promote the construction of artificial general intelligence computing infrastructure." He also expressed that he was very grateful for the valuable opportunities and experiences he had gained in leading the networking, edge computing and AI fields at Intel over the past four years, and called it a "lifetime honor" to work closely with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan, former CEO Pat Gelsinger, and Intel's edge and network group leader Nick McKeown.

Lip Bu Tan has said that he will personally lead Intel's AI strategy.

Katti’s departure is a big blow to Intel. Intel has faced challenges developing competitive AI accelerators and has been unable to compete with products from rivals Nvidia and AMD. In addition, Intel may also lag behind hyperscale cloud computing companies such as Google and AWS in the design of AI silicon chips, which have developed their own AI hardware. Even Nvidia and AMD are already out of reach in the field of AI hardware, and OpenAI obviously takes a fancy to Nvidia's hardware technology and entrusts it to build customized accelerators.

Intel has not yet been able to prove its ability to produce complex AI semiconductors in its own factories and has not yet secured a major AI customer.

However, OpenAI also faces many challenges. Although the company seems to be losing billions of dollars every quarter, it is still committed to investing tens of billions of dollars to build giant data centers, develop consumer-grade AI equipment, and work towards the goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI) - machines with cognitive abilities that surpass human beings. Katti mentioned that this was one of the reasons that prompted him to switch from Intel to OpenAI.

OpenAI is undertaking these large-scale projects while also working to transform its organizational structure from a non-profit to a model that can more easily attract investors. In recent weeks, CEO Sam Altman has called on governments to support OpenAI’s efforts, citing its project’s impact on critical national infrastructure.

According to media reports, Katti’s joining may bring many valuable revelations and changes to OpenAI, which deserves attention.