NVIDIA-Groq Partnership: The AI Hardware Giant Moves to Cement Its Edge in the Critical Inference Race
In a significant move to consolidate its leadership in the booming artificial intelligence market, NVIDIA has entered into a major licensing partnership with AI inference chip startup Groq, securing access to its pioneering Language Processing Unit (LPU) architecture. The deal, announced on December 26, 2025, goes beyond intellectual property, as NVIDIA will also absorb Groq’s founder and CEO, Jonathan Ross, along with key members of his engineering team. This strategic acquisition of both technology and talent underscores a pivotal moment in the AI hardware landscape: the intensifying battle for dominance not just in AI training but, critically, in the high-stakes, real-time world of AI inference.
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