Head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk’s AI company resigns: says ‘Jensen Huang was right, Elon and his teams are…’

Uday Ruddarraju, head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has resigned from his position. Ruddarraju, who was with the company for just over a year, played a key role in building Colossus — a large-scale supercomputer with over 200,000 GPUs — and in training Grok 3, one of xAI’s latest AI models. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, he confirmed his exit from the company. In the post, he said “Jensen Huang was right, Elon and his teams are singular in what they can achieve. Grateful to have played a small part in shaping the future of AI Compute from the inside.”

Reflecting on his time at xAI, he wrote “After an unforgettable ride, I’ve decided to move on from @xai and yesterday was my last day.