Who Is Groq? The Ex‑Google TPU Founder Behind the LPU
Groq is an AI‑chip company founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, the engineer who started Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) project as a 20% side project before it became core to Google’s AI stack. After leading early TPU development and working in the Google X “moonshot” group, Ross left to design a chip company around…