About Us
Grok: to understand profoundly and intuitively
— Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Groq
Origin
Groq was founded in 2016 and our name was officially trademarked in the same year.
If you’ve heard the rumor our inception started pool-side, you heard correctly! All those years ago, we were the first to go by Groq (more on that here) and were born with the vision of making AI accessible for all.
Geo-agnostic
Groq is based in Mountain View, CA with Groqsters (what we call our teammates) worldwide. While we have brick-and-mortar locations, we’re everywhere from San Diego to Austin to New York City, with concentrations of Groqsters in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Liberty Lake, and London.
Talent Density
To make the best technology, we hire the best people. At Groq, we’re proud of our talent density – the concentration of exceptional individuals who come together as a team to collaborate, solve problems, and innovate together. If you’re interested in joining us, check out our open positions.
Leadership
Jonathan Ross
CEO & Founder
Adam Tachner
CLO & VP of Corporate Development
Estelle Hong
Head, Planning & Execution (PLEX)
Tobi Crabtree
VP of People & Culture
Mark Heaps
VP of Brand & Creative
Aileen Black
President, Government & Public Sector
Sheryl Savage
General Counsel
Jim Miller
VP, Hardware Engineering
John Barrus
VP of Product
Board of Directors
FEDERAL ADVISORY BOARD
Karen Evans
Milo Medin
Don Simard
Teresa Smetzer
Jacqueline Tame
Pete Tseronis
Investors
Partners
What kind of partnerships does Groq offer?
Groq offers a number of paths to partnership including:
- IHVs: Independent Hardware Vendors for collaboration in providing servers and racks tailored to various specifications and customer requirements
- ISVs: Independent Software Vendors can access the Groq platform via our API. Groq is ideal for ISVs providing NLP and NLU-based solutions. For ISVs building SaaS and/or PaaS solutions, hardware procurement is available.
- CSPs: Cloud Service Providers looking to provide inference as a service, or host AI applications such as translation, sentiment analysis, code generation, content generation, chatbot applications, and contact center solutions can benefit from our 10x better latency advantage.
- VARs: We partner with industry-leading distributors and value-added resellers to offer our AI solutions to end customers, leveraging their existing billing and relationship management capabilities.
Consulting: We bring on consulting partners to deliver tailor-made solutions to end customers. Consulting partners have procurement vehicles and relationships with enterprises and Public Sector entities, providing strategic, operational, and IT consulting. You can join us to build innovative solutions for our customers on top of the Groq inference engine.
I am interested in becoming a Groq partner.
Please fill out the following form if you are interested in becoming a Groq partner or learning more about our Partner Network.