Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late

Nvidia spent a whopping $20 billion late last year to license Groq’s AI accelerator tech and hire away key members of its engineering team in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink deal. The acquihire technically left Groq’s core inference-as-a-service business intact, but was clearly architected in such a way as to fly under regulators' radar. This week, The New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice had launched an antitrust probe into the deal.