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Jonathan Ross and Groq
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- 0:00Nvidia just made the biggest deal in its
- 0:02history for one man's chip. This is
- 0:04Jonathan Ross. At Google, he built the
- 0:06TPU, the chip that runs Google's AI. He
- 0:08started it as a side project. Nobody
- 0:10asked him to. Google put it in every
- 0:12data center. Then in 2016, he left. He
- 0:15said the next chip shouldn't belong to
- 0:17Google. He called it Grok, [music] a
- 0:18chip built for one thing, answering, not
- 0:21training. It answered faster than
- 0:23anything people had seen. [music]
- 0:24Investors valued it at 7 billion. Nvidia
- 0:27noticed. Nvidia makes the chips that run
- 0:29almost all of AI. The most valuable
- 0:31company on Earth, and it came [music] to
- 0:32him. December 2025, 20 billion dollars,
- 0:36the largest deal Nvidia ever made.
- 0:38Nvidia licensed the chip and hired the
- 0:40man. He built Google's chip, then the
- 0:42one Nvidia paid for. [music] Twice, the
- 0:44giant needed him more than he needed the
- 0:46giant. Follow Vib Economies for more.
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