Claim · 2025-12-24 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Groq announced on 24 December 2025 that it had entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq’s inference technology, under which its founder Jonathan Ross, its president Sunny Madra and other members of the Groq team would join Nvidia, and that Groq would continue to operate as an independent company.

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NVIDIA → made a licensing and hiring agreement with → Groq

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Claim and evidence

NVIDIAmade a licensing and hiring agreement with ↓Groq

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source; Context: secondary · 1 source

Date: 2025-12-24 · event Records dated 2025 →
Activity stage: announced

Scope and limitsGroq's announcement of a licence and of hiring; it discloses no terms. CNBC reported the same day that an investor in Groq described the deal as a purchase of assets for about $20 billion; NVIDIA's CEO wrote in an internal email, as CNBC reported it, that NVIDIA was not acquiring Groq as a company. The record does not record an acquisition.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Groq and Nvidia Enter Non-Exclusive Inference Technology Licensing Agreement to Accelerate AI Inference at Global Scale

Groq · 2025-12-24

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Paraphrase

Groq states that it has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for its inference technology; that as part of the agreement Jonathan Ross, Groq's founder, Sunny Madra, its president, and other team members will join Nvidia to advance and scale the licensed technology; and that Groq will continue as an independent company.

Location in source Paragraphs 1-3

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Groq
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 5d60d581446c30f2ad770ecbe583121091ba7b8b88e0ad0f938e205ec267c616) directly from the publisher. A short announcement (about 100 words of body text); quoted only through short anchors.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Groq, “Groq and Nvidia Enter Non-Exclusive Inference Technology Licensing Agreement to Accelerate AI Inference at Global Scale”, 2025-12-24.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “non-exclusive licensing agreement” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L134) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceContext only

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record

CNBC · 2025-12-24

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Source excerpt

“While we are adding talented employees to our ranks and licensing Groq’s IP, we are not acquiring Groq as a company.”

Location in source Paragraph quoting Jensen Huang's email to employees

How it was read Read through a reader relay (r.jina.ai): a third-party rendering of the publisher’s current page, not an archive copy

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: CNBC
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 77485828b4e47ec41f7c9a31f29f3baee4d4b74cf5a81198afd89ac43fb113bb) through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: CNBC, “Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record”, 2025-12-24.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (21 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L134) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An announced arrangement under which the subject licenses the object’s technology and hires some of its staff. It is not an acquisition, and the record does not establish which staff moved or the terms.

Date. Announcement date; not a closing or effective date.

Record ID lg2-dl-nvidia-groq-agreement-2025