Tal Broda
Tal Broda is an engineering leader turned investor and an investment partner at Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry; he was previously OpenAI’s vice president of compute and research platform, where he led GPT-4.5 from its start through production scaling.
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Key facts
February 27, 2025Release of GPT-4.5
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-4.5, describing it as its largest and best model for chat at the time; the credits of the announcement list Tal Broda under “Executive Leadership.”[1]
As of October 2026: Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures
Career
According to Khosla Ventures, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Istante Software, Oracle, SOASTA and Mesosphere, working on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, real-time analytics and enterprise software; he was also head of platform at the electronic market maker Citadel SecuritiesCitadel SecuritiesCitadel Securities is an American market maker founded in Chicago in 2002 by Ken Griffin and partners and headquartered in Miami, providing liquidity to institutional and retail investors across a range of financial products. It is a separate company from Citadel, the hedge fund Griffin founded in 1990.Open the full entry, where he built the platform organization and led engineering for distributed systems as well as firm-wide streaming analytics and reporting.[2]
Before joining Khosla Ventures he was OpenAI’s vice president of compute and research platform, where he founded the Research Platform organization and grew it to several hundred engineers, led the hardware and software systems used to train and serve models, led GPT-4.5 from its start through production scaling, and helped shape Stargate. The bio page does not give years for these roles.[2]
Education
He holds a B.Sc. in computer science from The Academic College of Tel Aviv and MBAs from Columbia Business School and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.[2]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Khosla Ventures: Official website: https://www.khoslaventures.com/ (opens in a new window)[3]
OpenAI: Official website: https://openai.com/ (opens in a new window)[1]
X: Public account: https://x.com/talbroda (opens in a new window)[2]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talbroda/ (opens in a new window)[2]