📝 Groq assets acquired for $20B

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Nvidia has struck a blockbuster $20 billion licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq, effectively "acquihiring" its top leadership, including Google TPU pioneer Jonathan Ross, to lead its push into real-time AI inference. By paying a staggering premium for non-exclusive access to Groq’s ultra-low-latency LPU architecture rather than attempting a full merger, Nvidia is utilizing its $5 trillion market influence to absorb its most credible threat in the inference space before the "AI Arms Race" shifts focus from training models to running them. This deal allows Groq to remain a "technical" independent while the "brains" of the operation move into Nvidia to integrate the technology into the upcoming Vera Rubin chip platform, cementing Jensen Huang’s dominance over the entire AI hardware stack for years to come.

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