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AI chip race: Groq CEO takes on Nvidia, claims most startups will use speedy LPUs by end of 2024

After a viral moment, Groq CEO Jonathan Ross told me the 'eye-watering costs' of inference make his AI chips a "super-fast," cheaper option.

Shumer’s posts were “the match that lit the fuse,” Ross told me on a video call from a Paris hotel, where he had just had lunch with the team from Mistral — the French open source LLM startup that has enjoyed several of its own viral moments over the past couple of months. As I last week, feeding the widespread hunger for access to Nvidia GPUs, which was the top gossip of Silicon Valley last summer, has become big business across the AI industry. And, of course, there was the Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to deal with the demand by reshaping the world of AI chips — with a project that could cost trillions and has a complex geopolitical backdrop.

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