Let’s start where everyone’s talking right now — the number. $20 billion. That’s the reported value of NVIDIA’s “not-quite-an-acquisition” of Groq — the little AI hardware company that built a chip so unorthodox, the industry laughed when they unveiled it in 2023. Now? NVIDIA’s folding their architecture, their engineers, and their design DNA into the future of its own inference stack. Except here’s the twist — NVIDIA didn’t buy Groq outright. They structured it as a non-excl

On November 30, 2022, the world witnessed the release of ChatGPT, an AI language model that would soon become a household name. On the...