“The U.S. government and its allies are the only ones we’d be willing to sell hardware to.”
Groq is a chip company that has stopped selling chips to almost everyone. It now rents them out through GroqCloud, which counts 70,000 registered developers and plans 42,000 LPUs of its own this year. Jonathan Ross says it has capacity for 220,000 LPUs and is looking for partners to take them. A hardware startup that can’t find buyers calls itself a cloud and says it isn’t a pivot.