Manufacturer of chips and infrastructure for high-speed AI inference.
Founders
Jonathan Ross(United States · ♂)— The engineer who started Google's Tensor Processing Unit project as a 20% effort and then worked at Google X, Ross founded Groq in 2016 to build a new class of AI inference chip (the LPU) optimized for speed.
Douglas Wightman(United States · ♂)— A former Google engineer, Wightman co-founded Groq in 2016, helping launch the AI-chip startup alongside Jonathan Ross.