Groq execs to join NVIDIA
Digest more
At the heart of the agreement is a massive transfer of high-level talent. Jonathan Ross, Groq's founder and the original architect of Google's TPU program, will join NVIDIA alongside Groq's president, Sunny Madra, and other key team members to scale the licensed technology.
By combining Groq's inference technology with its own GPU ecosystem, Nvidia is positioning itself to control the full lifecycle of AI computation.
Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO,