NVIDIA Just Spent $20 Billion on a Company You've Never Heard Of—Here's Why That Matters
$20 billion. For a company most people have never heard of. When NVIDIA—the undisputed heavyweight of AI hardware—writes a check that size, you can bet it’s not for the office plants. The Groq acquisition (or licensing deal, reports vary) represents something bigger than just another tech giant buying a competitor. It’s a signal that the entire AI industry just pivoted hard. The training era is over. The inference era just arrived with a $20 billion price tag. ...