Meet Vijay Raji : Puducherry-born engineer joins ChatGPT maker OpenAI as applications CTO

OpenAI AI the startup behind the AI model ChatGPT-5 has completed a new hiring. OpenAI has hired Vijay Raji founder and CEO of Statsig, who will join OpenAI as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Applications. This move is similar to what Meta did with Alexander Wang by buying his AI startup and poaching him into the AI leadership position at Meta.

The race for the most advanced and capable AI LLM model is on, and these Big Tech Firms are in stiff competition. Meta, OpenAI, Amazon and Microsoft are in a race to poach and hire the best AI minds in the tech industry and use them to one-up their rivals. OpenAI, being no exception, is reshuffling its senior leadership team and making a major acquisition, as it continues to expand its product ambitions.