Jonathan Ross
Founder and former CEO of Groq, maker of the LPU inference chip and the GroqCloud platform
Jonathan Ross founded Groq, whose custom-built LPU chip and cloud run AI models for inference, and was quoted as Groq's CEO and Founder in company announcements such as the April 2025 release on Groq serving fast inference for Meta's official Llama API. A November 2024 Groq blog post on the future stages of generative AI is adapted from an original post by Ross. In December 2025 Groq announced a non-exclusive inference technology licensing agreement with NVIDIA, under which Ross and other members of the Groq team would join NVIDIA, while Simon Edwards stepped into the role of Groq's CEO.123
Work
Groq LPU and GroqCloud (external site: groq.com)Proprietary product
Founded Groq and led it as CEO; Groq's announcements describe its custom-built LPU and cloud for running models, and its December 2025 release licenses that inference technology to NVIDIA on a non-exclusive basis.13
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