Platform Profile
Groq
Groq builds specialized inference hardware and software for extremely fast AI responses.
Role
Inference speed
Stack
LPUs
Status
Active
Groq focuses on making high-speed inference widely accessible.
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- Disruptive Raises a $10 Billion Fund to Put Up to $1 Billion Each Into About 10 Late-Stage Tech Companies, Citing AI and Defense
Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive announced a $10 billion flagship fund on October 27 that it says will back approximately 10 growth and late-stage private technology companies with up to $1 billion each, pointing to AI, compute infrastructure and defense as the areas driving capital needs. TechCrunch, which describes the plan as at least 10 companies, reports that it is the firm's first blind-pool fund after years of deal-by-deal vehicles. The release does not name the fund's investors.
- Groq 3 LPX Enters Full Production — AA Hit 3,431 tok/s on Nvidia’s Own Gear
Nvidia put Groq 3 LPX — the interactive inference accelerator that extends Vera Rubin — into full production. Artificial Analysis measured 3,431 output tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B at 100K context on a private Nvidia-hosted endpoint. Nebius is the first named cloud; Groq will follow with Dell. The 3,431 figure is AA's measurement on Nvidia-hosted hardware, not a worldwide production-API record.
- Groq Raises $350M at $3.5B — Half Its Peak, Now Nvidia’s Cluster Landlord
Groq closed a $350 million Series A led by Disruptive with planned Nvidia participation, valuing the inference operator at $3.5 billion — about half its 2025 peak after Nvidia’s licensing deal hired away founder Jonathan Ross — and bringing 2026 capital to $1 billion as it targets 200+ MW in 2027.