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Our chat with Groq's Chief Evangelist, Mark Heaps (Pt. 2)

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Today, Mark walks us through his thoughts on Groq’s role in the AI stack, the rise of multimodal, and what makes their team special. Check out Part 1 here. Groq is a startup at the center of the AI-driven chip revolution, and is the brainchild of Jonathan Ross, who was previously a lead inventor of Google’s TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). Founded in 2016, Groq’s stated mission is to ‘set the standard for AI inference speed’ via its proprietary LPU (Language Processing Unit), a new type of end-to-end processing unit system that provides the fastest inference' for computationally intensive applications such as LLMs. Just two weeks ago, Groq went viral on X for its demos of GroqChat - a consumer-facing application that allows users to query any model via a text input, similar in UI to ChatGPT. Almost overnight, thousands of users began posting snippets of Groq’s blazingly-fast output speeds - seemingly far quicker than anything previously seen via alternative LLMs products. In just a few we

Our chat with Groq's Chief Evangelist, Mark Heaps (Pt. 2) Home Posts Our chat with Groq's Chief Evangelist, Mark Heaps (Pt. 2) Our chat with Groq's Chief Evangelist, Mark Heaps (Pt. 2) Mark on the AI stack, multimodal and Groq's team culture... Mar 8, 2024 CV Deep Dive Welcome to Part 2 of our chat with Mark Heaps of Groq . Today, Mark walks us through his thoughts on Groq’s role in the AI stack, the rise of multimodal, and what makes their team special. Check out Part 1 here . Groq is a startup at the center of the AI-driven chip revolution , and is the brainchild of Jonathan Ross , who was p

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