Meet Uday Ruddarraju, Indian-origin engineer who left Elon Musk's xAI to join…, he studied from …
Uday Ruddarraju: Indian-origin Uday Ruddarraju was serving as a chief of infrastructure engineering at xAI, which is world's richest man Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence based startup. At xAI, Ruddarraju headed the team that is responsible for building the supercomputer Colossus with over 250,000 GPUs. Colossus is one of the largest system ever built. He also spearheaded the training of Grok 3, the company's newest AI model, utilising a largest pre-training process involving 100,000 GPUs. Now, has resigned from his responsibilities. What will he do next? Lets know.
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