Nvidia has struck a non-exclusive licensing settlement with AI chip competitor Groq. As a part of the deal, Nvidia will rent Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and different staff.
CNBC reported that Nvidia is buying belongings from Groq for $20 billion; Nvidia informed TechCrunch that this isn’t an acquisition of the corporate and didn’t touch upon the scope of the deal. But when CNBC’s numbers are correct, this buy is predicted to be Nvidia’s largest ever, and with Groq on its aspect, Nvidia is poised to change into much more dominant in chip manufacturing.
As tech firms compete to develop their AI capabilities, they want computing energy, and Nvidia’s GPUs have emerged because the business commonplace. However Groq has been engaged on a unique kind of chip referred to as an LPU (language processing unit), which it has claimed can run LLMs at 10 occasions sooner and utilizing one-tenth the power. Groq’s CEO Jonathan Ross is understood for this kind of innovation — when he labored for Google, he helped invent the TPU (tensor processing unit), a customized AI accelerator chip.
In September, Groq raised $750 million at a $6.9 billion valuation. Its development has been fast and vital — the corporate mentioned that it powers the AI apps of greater than 2 million builders, up from about 356,000 final 12 months.
Up to date, 12/24/25 at 5:40 p.m. ET, with clarification from Nvidia concerning the nature of the deal.
