Nvidia $20B Groq acquisition

#Nvidia $20B Groq Acquisition

ℹ️ You guys may have noticed a trend in the recent AI acquisitions: they hire the founder + few leadership position and leave the rest of the team in a zombie company, this happened with Meta > Scale, Google > Windsurf, and now NVIDIA > Groq and Meta > Maus. So why is that? Well it turns out this solution avoids antitrust scrutiny.

Groq has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology. Groq Cloud will continue to operate without interruption. This blog post breaks down the antitrust loophole that enabled NVIDIA to close this $20B deal: https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq.

#What Nvidia Actually Bought (And What It Didn't)

Nvidia acquired:

• All of Groq's intellectual property and patents
• Non-exclusive licensing rights to Groq's inference technology
• Jonathan Ross (CEO), Sunny Madra (President), and the entire senior leadership team

Nvidia explicitly did NOT buy:

• GroqCloud, the cloud infrastructure business, which continue with its CFO Simon Edwards. This is because KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) uses this service, and Nvidia preferred to avoid extra scrutiny on offering inference to a foreign country.

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