NVIDIA AI Chip Challenger Groq is said to be close to collecting new donations with a rating of $ 6 billion

Starting the artificial intelligence chip GROQ is holding a new $ 600 million collection when evaluating approximately $ 6 billionThe sources tell Bloomberg, although the deal has not ended yet, and the terms may change.

Groc Uplast $ 640 million, with an evaluation of $ 2.8 billion In August 2024, which makes this evaluation double in almost a year. Groq previously collected about one billion dollars.

The new tour is led by Austin -based Awli, according to Bloomberg reports. He led the November round by Blackrock, with the participation of Neugerger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco, Kddi and Samsung Catalyst Fund.

GROQ was founded by Jonathan Ross, who previously worked in Google to develop a congregation unit chip. the The start of the hidden start in 2016.

This new increase comes after Groq I announced in May Exclusive partnership with Bell Canada to run a large infrastructure project of artificial intelligence in communications. In April, Groq Partnership with Meta To present the infrastructure of Amnesty International to accelerate Lama 4 inference. It was not re -sabotage or Groq immediately we asked for comment.

Correction: This story was originally informed of the last increase.