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Jonathan Ross

1 entry · 17 August 2026

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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  1. 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.

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