OpenAI appoints former xAI infrastructure head Uday Ruddaraju as its new CTO of Compute to build the framework for GPT-5.6.

As Ruddaraju takes on the new role, he highlights that he has bigger plans for the company’s compute infrastructure and aims to strengthen OpenAI’s ability to scale AI models.

The move will vault the company into deeper competition with the likes of Apple, Amazon and Google, and the push has already ...