The NVIDIA-Groq $20 billion deal announced on December 24, 2025 is a major strategic move in the AI hardware space. NVIDIA and Groq clarified that it is not a full company acquisition. The deal is structured as a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq’s inference technology, combined with NVIDIA hiring key Groq personnel. Groq’s founder and …
Cerebras is a startup that makes wafer sized AI chips. They are making a data center with those AI wafer chips to provide super-fast AI inference. ‣ Llama3.1-70B at 450 tokens/s – 20x faster than GPUs ‣ 60c per M tokens – a fifth the price of hyperscalers ‣ Full 16-bit precision for full model …
Groq said that they will start operating an AI inference cluster with large business in 30 days. Groq made a presentation at the GenAI summit 2024 in San Francisco. They are processing 30,000 inference input inference tokens and will put together about 1500 chips into an inference data center that will process 25 million inference …