New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- As the AI infrastructure race intensifies, NVIDIA has struck a notable licensing agreement with AI inference startup Groq, one that reshapes both companies' leadership and technology roadmaps without triggering a full acquisition.

Groq announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive inference technology licensing agreement with NVIDIA, aimed at expanding access to high-performance, low-cost AI inference at a global scale. The deal also brings a significant leadership shift: Jonathan Ross, founder of Groq, and Sunny Madra, president of Groq, along with other members of the Groq team, will join NVIDIA to help advance and scale the licensed technology.

Despite the personnel move, Groq emphasised that it will contin...