Groq Raises $350M as Nvidia Joins, and Nemotron 3.5 Lands in SageMaker

Specialized inference hardware gets a boost as Groq raises a $350M round at a $3.5B valuation with Nvidia participating, while Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ships in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.

Inference is where the commercial action is moving. @wesjh_ reported that Groq raised $350 million in a Series A at a $3.5 billion valuation — with Nvidia joining the round. That last detail is the interesting one: Nvidia participating in a company built around inference silicon that competes with its own suggests a strategic hedge, or at least an acknowledgment that specialized inference stacks have a place in the ecosystem.

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