Groq founder and former CEO Jonathan Ross is telling the inside story of Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition — and it started with him trying to be a customer. He walked into Jensen Huang's office planning to buy around 100,000 Blackwell GPUs. But he also came with a pitch: AI data centers shouldn't use the same hardware for every job. Training is like bulk shipping; you need the 18-wheeler (a GPU). Inference is more like local delivery — give it a nimble, efficient van (Groq's LPU).
Three days later, Huang called him back — not...