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How Groq Raised 650 Million Without an Acquihire
When Nvidia spent $20 billion acquiring a team it couldn't hire, the AI chip world took notice. But Groq, the startup that builds custom inference chips, just raised $650 million without being acquired. Lucas and Luna dig into why Groq's strategy — a stubborn focus on latency, a single-minded product bet on large-language model inference, and a financing structure that avoided a traditional VC round — tells us something about how AI hardware companies are staying independent in 2026. They anchor the conversation around the May 29 TechCrunch headline about Groq's raise, contrast…
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