AI chip startup Groq acquires Definitive Intelligence, expands enterprise focus

  • AI chip startup Groq forms a new division called Groq Systems focused on serving organizations and government agencies
  • Groq acquires Definitive Intelligence, an AI solutions firm, and its CEO Sunny Madra will now lead GroqCloud
  • GroqCloud provides access to Groq’s hardware and cloud-hosted AI accelerators through documentation, code samples, and APIs
  • Definitive Intelligence offered business AI products like chatbots, data analytics tools, and documentation builders
  • Groq is developing an “LPU” inference engine chip that can run large language models like GPT much faster than other hardware
  • The acquisition of Definitive Intelligence is Groq’s second after Maxeler Technologies, as Groq aims to establish itself in the competitive custom AI chip market