Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger named chairman and chief technology officer of faith-based platform Gloo

Pat Gelsinger, who retired as CEO of Intel in December 2024, announced on his LinkedIn that he will become chairman of the board and chief technology officer for product development at technology companyGloo .

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Gelsinger graduated from high school early and earned an associate's degree from Lincoln Institute of Technology before joining Intel at the age of 18. He was the lead architect for the Intel 486 processor, released in 1989, and became Intel's Chief Technology Officer in 2001. He retired from Intel in 2009, but returned as CEO of Intel in 2021.

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However, Gelsinger has announced that he will step down as CEO of Intel in December 2024 and retire from Intel.

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'For more than 40 years, Linda and I have lived at the intersection of technology and faith. Today, that intersection goes even deeper as we begin a new chapter -- one in which I will take on an expanded role at Gloo. Effective today, I have been named Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Gloo,' Gelsinger wrote in a LinkedIn post.

Gloo is a platform company for religious organizations such as churches, aid agencies, publishers, seminaries and home schools, allowing them to set up web pages and provide AI assistants trained on the church's own content.

Gelsinger, who has been involved in Christian-related businesses since around 2013, has served as a director of Gloo and has been involved as an investor. Gelsinger is also involved in the development of Gloo's AI chatbot service 'Kallm,' and in January 2025 posted a post praising DeepSeek-R1 compared to OpenAI's o1.

Wisdom is learning the lessons we thought we already knew. DeepSeek reminds us of three important learnings from computing history:
1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI…

— Pat Gelsinger (@PGelsinger) January 27, 2025

Gelsinger said Kallm and other AI-related efforts will be fundamental to his work at Gloo, noting, 'In all of our work, we are deeply committed to open source, trust through transparency, benchmarking, and licensing of content for training and use of AI.'

'There has never been a more important time for faith-based communities to play an active role in shaping technology as a force for good,' said Gelsinger. 'As we have seen with social media, the impacts of technological advances can be swift, profound and long-lasting. AI is an even more powerful yet evolving tool. It is essential that we ensure that AI is used to enhance the human experience and not cause harm.'