The AI Chip Boom Saved This Tiny Startup. Now Worth $2.8 Billion, It's Taking On Nvidia

Armed with a newly raised $640 million, Groq thinks it can challenge one of the world’s most valuable companies with a purpose-built chip designed for AI from scratch.

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[donson]

The dedicated chips from Cerebras, SambaNova, and Groq run with lower power. They're built from the ground up so that you don't have to deal with HPC nonsense.

[AdvantestInc]

Jonathan Ross's leadership has propelled Grok to new heights! Their journey from a struggling startup to a $2.8 billion company is truly inspirational.

[RickySupriyadi]

isn't groq specified only for transformer? if it's another "breed" of AI will it able to Inference them? like Google TPU it's strong Inferencing certain type model but not the others... am I understanding this wrong?

[RomanticPopPunk]

This video feels like it’s made by an AI

[mutantryeff]

If an AI chip uses 2000 kWh a piece, that is 2MWh a piece. 500 of them would be 1GWh. Better find a way to get that electricity.

[aaronjaggars]

Groq is tpus from google n founded by the man who made em ...

[Mari_Selalu_Berbuat_Kebaikan]

Let's always do alot of good ❤
Nam myoho renge kyo

[pharoahkenun]

and richard i will be sending you money as we look after our own and may be we should come together and built a plate form that allows use freedom of truth to be spoken with out being intercepted by satans little minions