Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross is the founder and CEO of Groq, an AI inference chip company he started in 2016 with several former Google engineers. At Google he began what became the Tensor Processing Unit as a 20% project and designed core elements of the original TPU. Groq's Language Processing Unit (LPU) is built for low-latency LLM inference. In December 2025 Nvidia announced a $20B non-exclusive license for Groq's inference technology, with most Groq employees including Ross joining Nvidia.