The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Groq: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Groq is an AI inference technology company founded in 2016 by former Google TPU engineer Jonathan Ross, headquartered in Mountain View, CA. It designs the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a purpose-built inference accelerator, and operates GroqCloud, a neocloud serving 5M+ developers across 13 data centers. In December 2025, Groq entered a USD 17-20B licensing deal with Nvidia, integrating the Groq 3 LPU into Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Technology
Focus
CEO
COO
Key product
Nvidia deal
Revenue
Data centers
Saudi deployment
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Every company Groq has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1109 total
Most recent
- Nvidia x Groq (LPU Licensing Deal)2025-12-24with NVIDIAinferred
Groq on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Jonathan Ross Founder and CEO, Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Jonathan Rosscofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Krishna Rangasayee COOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Groq.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Groq on the data-center map
Every verified data center Groq operates that has a mapped coordinate (2 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Groq data centers (2)
- Groq Dallas (Equinix)Dallas · operating
- Groq Houston (DataBank)Houston · operating
AI data centers Groq operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Groq in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total
Every company Groq has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Nvidia x Groq (LPU Licensing Deal)2025-12-24with NVIDIAinferred
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1109 total
Funding rounds (2)
- Series D2024-08-05
- Series C2021-04-01
Investors: XTX Ventures (follow), Tiger Global Management (co_lead), D1 Capital Partners (co_lead), Spruce House (follow), Addition (follow), GCM Grosvenor (follow), TDK Ventures (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Groq’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Samsung Electronics
2026-08-23Supply: Samsung 4nm for Groq LPU from Samsung Electronics
New supplierNew supplier: TSMC
2026-08-23Supply: TSMC foundry for Groq from TSMC
PartnershipNvidia x Groq (LPU Licensing Deal)
2025-12-24Nvidia entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq for its LPU inference technology, valued at USD 17-20B in cash payments. The Groq 3 LPU is integrated into Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform as the LPX inference accelerator. Groq founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra joined Nvidia as part of the deal.
Funding roundSeries D funding round
2024-08-05Series D
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2021-04-01Series C
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Groq.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Groq from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
The DOJ Is Investigating Nvidia’s Licensing Deal With Chip Startup Groq
<p>The Department of Justice is looking into whether Nvidia tried to avoid antitrust scrutiny in its $20 billion deal to license the technology of chip startup Groq and hire most…
NVIDIA (NVDA)’s $20 Billion Groq Bet Goes Live This Year With New AI Racks
Nvidia’s $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Acquisition Looks Expensive. It May Actually Be Cheap
Yesterday, chip giant Nvidia confirmed it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, making it the company’s second-largest acquisition after its $20 billion purchase…
Nvidia’s dedicated inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX enters full production to supercharge AI agents
Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production as it strives to maintain its dominance in the…
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble
Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding
Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised $350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok…
Groq Raises $350 Million Series A At $3.5 Billion Valuation As AI Compute Footprint Targets 200+ MW
Groq has raised $350 million in Series A funding at a $3.5 billion valuation as the AI infrastructure company prepares to expand its global compute footprint from 54 MW to more…
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Groq Raises 50M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business
Groq raised USD 650M in growth capital led by Disruptive and Infinitum to scale toward 200 MW by 2027. Now operates 13 data centers serving 5M+ developers.
Aramco Digital and Groq Announce Progress in Building World's Largest Inferencing Data Center in Saudi Arabia
Aramco Digital and Groq partnered to build the world's largest inferencing data center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, powered by 19,000 LPUs.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/groq.md
- RSS feed: /companies/groq/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/92460767-deb2-4cdc-b22d-fc95df90198d
- Revision history: /companies/groq/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Groq draws attention at the 65th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among brain robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 26 months ago.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 19, 2026