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Nvidia Licenses Groq's Inference Tech and Hires Founder as Groq Stays Independent
- On Wednesday, December 24, 2025, Groq announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia, with founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and others joining Nvidia while Simon Edwards becomes Groq CEO.
- Amid a shift to inference-focused hardware, Nvidia Corp. licenses Groq's technology and hires key talent, reflecting the acqui-hire trend as AI firms seek specialized inference capabilities.
- On Wednesday, reports said Nvidia would pay $20 billion, with Alex Davis telling CNBC it involved buying Groq's assets, while Groq described it as a non-exclusive licence and not a full acquisition.
- The company emphasised it is licensing Groq's IP and adding staff while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote, `We plan to integrate Groq’s low-latency processors into the NVIDIA AI factory architecture,` marking Nvidia Corp.'s largest technology purchase so far.
- Groq claims its LPU's SRAM-centric design enables 5–10x speed and ~90% cost cuts, powering AI apps for more than two million developers after $750 million funding months ago.
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Nvidia technology company signed a non-exclusive licence agreement with the 'Groq' startup' of artificial intelligence, based on Google's ex-engineers.
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The company purchased the assets of the startup Groq.
Nvidia’s new large-scale operation. The well-known start-up Groq has announced the signing of a non-exclusive licensing agreement with the chip giant for its inference technology, indicating that this alliance reflects a shared approach to expanding access to high-performance, low-cost inference.
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