Company record
Groq
Updated October 26, 2026 · Presspool
Groq runs an AI inference cloud, a neocloud serving open models on its own data-center capacity, after licensing its chip technology to Nvidia. groq.com
Funding
Latest announced financing: $350 million, Series A, led by Disruptive, announced August 17, 2026.
- $350 million Series A, announced August 17, 2026. Led by Disruptive. Sources: groq.com, TechCrunch.
Whether AI names Groq
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 8 of 53 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on October 26, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 2 of 8, Copilot 1 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 5). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Groq ranked 8th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (19 of 53), Crusoe (16 of 53), Together AI (16 of 53), Modal (13 of 53) and Firecrawl (10 of 53). Most often named in the same answers: Together AI (7), Crusoe (5), Fireworks AI (5), Lambda (4), Baseten (3).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 1 of 31,157 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to October 28, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Groq in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 8 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 3 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 8 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 6 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 8 of 53 |
Sources AI cites when it names Groq
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on October 26, 2026; 8 of the 53 answers named or cited Groq, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode. The sites those 8 answers cited most:
- artificialintelligencecompanies.com: 2 of 8 answers
- digitalocean.com: 2 of 8 answers
- gmicloud.ai: 2 of 8 answers
- openai.com: 2 of 8 answers
- agentjesse.ai: 1 of 8 answers
- baseten.co: 1 of 8 answers
- bigdatasupply.com: 1 of 8 answers
- builtin.com: 1 of 8 answers
- calcalistech.com: 1 of 8 answers
- crunchbase.com: 1 of 8 answers
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Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Crusoe, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl, Fireworks AI, Fluidstack, GMI Cloud, Go.AI, Granite, Halluminate, hosted·ai, HUD, Inferact, Infino, Kernel, KONST, Lambda, LangChain, LMArena, Mecka, Mercor, Modal, Nscale, Ocular AI, Ollama, OpenRouter, PaleBlueDot AI, Parallel Web Systems, Parasail, Patronus AI, Qdrant, RadixArk, Respan, Runpod, SiliconFlow, Snorkel AI, Subconscious, Tensormesh, TensorWave, Thunder Compute, Together AI, Turba Labs, Uvi, Verda, Zeroset.