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Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross is the founder and chief executive of Groq, a US company that designs the Language Processing Unit, a chip specialised for fast AI inference. Before founding Groq he began the project that became Google's Tensor Processing Unit, initially as a side project to accelerate the company's machine-learning workloads.
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Former Groq engineers sue over Nvidia's $20bn licensing deal for the startup
The Delaware suit says Nvidia's deal split $17bn into a non-exclusive licence and $3bn into stock for staff who joined Nvidia, without a shareholder vote.
Courts & copyright · Money & business · Compute & infrastructure
Groq raises $350m and pivots from chips to an AI cloud business
The $3.5bn valuation is roughly half Groq's September 2025 peak; the company now runs Nvidia GPUs across 13 data centres rather than its own chips.
Money & business · Compute & infrastructure