Groq just signed a non-exclusive licensing deal with Nvidia to scale its low-latency AI inference technology worldwide. Groq founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra are joining Nvidia to lead the integration, while Groq will remain an independent company led by new CEO Simon Edwards, keeping GroqCloud running uninterrupted.
Groq just partnered with PlayAI to deploy its Dialog text-to-speech model on GroqCloud, featuring English and native Arabic support. Using PlayAI's adaptive contextualizer alongside Groq's LPUs, the model responds with conversation-aware emotion at up to 140 characters per second—roughly 10x faster than real time. Why it matters: developers can now build voice agents with near-zero latency and convincing prosody directly on a single inference platform.
AI chip startup Groq just pulled in a massive $640 million funding round led by Blackrock, valuing the inference specialist at $2.8 billion. The company claims its custom LPUs run generative AI models 10x faster and with a fraction of the energy of conventional GPUs. Meta's Yann LeCun is also joining as a technical advisor, giving the upstart serious ammo against Nvidia.
AI chipmaker Groq just acquired analytics startup Definitive Intelligence for an undisclosed sum to scale its on-demand platform, GroqCloud. Definitive Intelligence previously helped build the cloud infrastructure, which lets developers access Groq's ultrafast LPUs on demand. Its CEO Sunny Madra will now take charge of GroqCloud, alongside a new Groq Systems division targeting government and enterprise deployments.
