SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Intel ( INTC ) said on

Monday its CEO Lip-Bu Tan would oversee the chipmaker's

artificial intelligence efforts after the firm's chief

technology officer departed for ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Sachin Katti, who has led Intel's ( INTC ) AI efforts since a management

reorganization at the chipmaker in January, said on social media

site X that he had joined OpenAI.

"We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the

best. Lip-Bu will lead the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups,

working closely with the team," Intel ( INTC ) said in a statement.

"AI remains one of Intel's ( INTC ) highest strategic priorities, and we

are focused on executing our technology and product roadmap

across emerging AI workloads," the company added.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman said on X that Katti would be

"designing and building our compute infrastructure, which will

power our (artificial general intelligence) research and scale

its applications to benefit everyone."

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis, Jeffrey Dastin and Max Cherney in

San Francisco;)