OpenAI Appoints Vijaye Raji as CTO of Applications Following Statsig Acquisition
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Summary
OpenAI is expanding its Applications leadership team with Vijaye Raji becoming CTO of Applications following the acquisition of Statsig. Raji will report to Fidji Simo and lead product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex, focusing on scaling AI applications to serve hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The move aims to strengthen engineering systems, enable faster iteration, and maintain long-term focus on quality and reliability as OpenAI transforms AI research into intuitive, safe, and useful tools.
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As a hands-on builder and trusted leader, Vijaye will head product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.
Our ambition is to push the frontier of AI research and turn it into intuitive, safe, and useful tools that people love.
That takes strong engineering systems, fast iteration, and a long-term focus on quality and reliability.
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