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Aug 17, 2026

Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation as it pivots from AI chips to Nvidia-powered cloud infrastructure

AI infrastructure startup Groq has raised $350 million in Series A funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, marking a strategic pivot from developing its own AI chips to becoming a neocloud provider offering GPU and AI infrastructure services. Notably, Nvidia has joined the funding round as the company shifts to using Nvidia-powered infrastructure.

Aug 17, 20263 sources

Jun 18, 2026

Midjourney Announces Pivot to Medical Hardware with Full-Body Ultrasonic Scanner Project

AI image generation company Midjourney has announced Midjourney Medical, a new venture to develop full-body scanners that can map internal anatomy in 60 seconds, along with medical spa facilities where patients would receive scans.

Jun 18, 20263 sources

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▪Following the licensing agreement, Groq founder and CEO Jonathan Ross and several key specialists left the startup to join Nvidia
▪Nvidia struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq's language-processing-unit technology, widely reported as a $20 billion deal paid out to investors
▪A Groq spokesperson stated that the company does not view the $3.5 billion valuation as a down round, but rather as establishing a new valuation for the post-Nvidia-licensing-deal version of the business

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AI startups2 AI image generators1 AI inference (scaling)1 Cloud infrastructure1 Compute, chips & AI infrastructure1 Drug Approval and Clinical Trials1 Venture capital funding1

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