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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation

AI chip startup Groq confirmed Wednesday that it raised a fresh $750 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $6.9 billion. This topped the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that Groq was raising. At that time, reports suggested that the raise would be about $600 million, at near a $6 billion valuation. Groq, which also sells data center computing power, previously raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this more than double the valuation in about

Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards

bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay Config In prod Groq (not Grok) is used because they are about 40% faster than openai & gemini You may choose to skip use of Groq by setting env openai_as_groq=true OpenAI - svg guidance - gpt-4o Gemini - svg ranking - gemini-2.0-flash Replicate - image generation - ideogram-v2a-turbo Groq - svg generation - ll

Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq said to be nearing new fundraising at $6B valuation

In Brief AI chip startup Groq is in talks to raise a fresh $600 million at a near $6 billion valuation, sources tell Bloomberg, although the deal isn’t yet final and terms could change. Groq raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this double the valuation in about a year. Groq previously raised about $1 billion. The new round is led by Austin-based firm Disruptive, Bloomberg reports. The November round was led by BlackRock, with participation from Neuberger Ber

Nvidia challenger Groq expands with first European data center

Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Groq on Monday announced it has established its first data center in Europe as it steps up its international expansion. Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco , said the data center will be located in Helsinki, Finland and is in partnership with Equinix . Groq is looking to take advantage

Groq just made Hugging Face way faster — and it’s coming for AWS and Google

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Groq, the artificial intelligence inference startup, is making an aggressive play to challenge established cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Google with two major announcements that could reshape how developers access high-performance AI models. The company announced Monday that it now supports Alibaba’s Qwen3 32B language mode