Groq
Groq is an AI Accelerators company founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, USA. It has raised $2.0B in total funding, most recently a Series F in 2026 at a $3.5B valuation.
Groq builds Language Processing Units (LPUs) — a deterministic, software-scheduled inference architecture with large on-chip SRAM that targets the lowest, most predictable LLM latency; its viral GroqChat demo showed 500+ tok/s. Founded by ex-Google TPU lead Jonathan Ross. Raised a $750M Series E in September 2025 at a $6.9B valuation. In December 2025 Nvidia struck a reported ~$20B 'not-an-acquisition' — a non-exclusive license of Groq's hardware IP plus the hire of Ross, president Sunny Madra, and several senior engineers, with Groq's investors paid out in cash. Groq remains an independent company: GroqCloud keeps operating under interim CEO Adam Winter and CFO Matt Eng, and the company is raising ~$650M from existing backers to scale its inference cloud.
Groq's LPU posts among the fastest publicly measured LLM inference speeds — validation that drew a reported ~$20B Nvidia deal to license the technology and hire its leadership, even as Groq pushes on independently with GroqCloud.
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