India, July 12 -- Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, has lost one of its top engineering leaders to rival AI heavyweight OpenAI. Uday Ruddarraju, who played a pivotal role in building the core infrastructure of Musk's xAI, confirmed his exit recently.

In a post on X, Ruddarraju said, "Jensen Huang was right. Elon and his teams are singular in what they can achieve. I'm grateful to have played a small part in shaping the future of AI Compute from the inside."

Ruddarraju's departure marks a significant moment for xAI, especially considering his central role in creating Colossus, the supercomputer at the heart of Musk's AI ambitions.

Designed to handle immense computational loads, Colossus boasts over 200,000 GPUs and was instrumental in traini...