Groq — Valuation, Funding & Investors

Groq builds an AI accelerator chip it calls the Language Processing Unit, along with the hardware and software around it, to speed up AI inference for workloads such as large language models and image classification. Jonathan Ross, one of the designers of Google's Tensor Processing Unit, founded the company in 2016 with a group of former Google engineers, and it is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

In December 2025, Nvidia agreed to license Groq's AI inference technology in a deal reportedly worth about $20 billion and to bring over several senior Groq executives, while Groq said it would continue to operate as an independent company.

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No. Groq is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.