Groq (Fast LLM Inference)

Groq is an AI infrastructure company that provides the fastest publicly available LLM inference using its custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware, achieving speeds of 750+ tokens per second for Llama and Mixtral models. Groq's GroqCloud API gives developers access to open-source models at speeds that enable real-time AI applications. Developers building voice agents, code assistants, and interactive AI applications where response latency is critical use Groq for its speed advantage over GPU-based inference. Conversations with Groq-powered models feel instant rather than requiring visible thinking time. Groq's hardware innovation (custom chips optimized for transformer inference rather than general GPU compute) enables a fundamentally different performance profile than cloud providers. Its focus on inference speed over training differentiation makes it a specialized infrastructure choice for latency-sensitive AI use cases.