Nvidia and Groq strike AI inference licensing deal as $20 billion acquisition report swirls
On December 24, 2025, a Christmas Eve headline jolted the AI hardware world: CNBC reported that Nvidia had agreed to buy AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion in cash, a move that would rank among Nvidia’s biggest strategic bets in the AI era. Reuters But as the story raced across markets and social media, Groq published its own…