The race for building the next breakthrough chip for artificial intelligence isn’t slowing down.
What’s happening:
- Artificial intelligence chip maker Groq has acquired cloud computing company Definitive Intelligence
- The new acquisition will enable Groq to launch their own cloud computing venture for artificial intelligence startups
Why it matters:
- Groq has built an Language Processing Unit that is reportedly capable of running Large Language Models at approximately 10x the speed of other available interface engines
- If successful, Groq could potentially accelerate the development of training artificial intelligence models and workloads significantly
How it works:
- Language Processing Units solve two important problems for Large Language models, which are compute density and memory bandwidth
- Groq’s chips are able to drastically reduce the time spent on calculating each word in training a model, which allows sequences of words to be generated significantly faster
Going deeper:
- Groq has attracted some of the most legendary venture capital investors in Silicon Valley, including Social Capital, Tiger Global and TDK Ventures
- By launching a cloud computing venture, Groq is aiming to provide artificial intelligence startups on demand access to their chips and code samples
