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Groq

🌎 groq.com

Groq is the creator of the LPU™ AI Inference Technology for fast, affordable, and energy efficient AI. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Groq provides cloud and on-prem solutions at scale for AI applications. The LPU and related systems are designed, fabricated, and assembled in North America.

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Updates as of Sep 20, 2024

• Groq launched support for Gemma2 9b on LiteLLM.
• Groq added a newsletter summarizing assistant by Composio to their API Cookbook.
• Groq has collaborated with Meta to build 'Play,' an AI research product using the Llama3.1 open source model and a multi-terabyte vector database.
• Groq introduced xRx, an open-source framework for creating and deploying multimodal AI solutions with real-time reasoning and dynamic speech and visuals.
• David Hendrickson highlighted a new tool by Groq that uses fast inferencing to enable creativity without SaaS.

• Luciano Tonet released a Laravel package to integrate applications with the Groq API, offering features like chat, translation, and image analysis.
• AgentOps 0.3.11 now supports Groq and Anthropic with new time travel debugging and first-class LLM features.
• Christopher Stephens joined Groq as Field CTO to lead AI Solutions and Customer Success.
• Groq introduced Llamaberry, an interactive AI tool demonstrating multi-turn Chain of Thought reasoning.
• An open-source model called g1, powered by Meta's Llama-3.1 and Groq, solves reasoning problems similar to OpenAI's o1.
• Benjamin Klieger announced that he created g1, powered by Llama-3.1 on Groq, which solves the Strawberry problem ~70% of the time without fine tuning.
• A new deep dive agentic interface called compute.hyper.space is now running on Groq hardware.
• Groq and 8090 Solutions have open-sourced the xRx framework for creating AI apps with multimodal capabilities.
• Team NoteHacks led by Simon Ilincev won the Best on Groq prize at Hack the North last weekend.
• NoteHacks uses Groq for image, speech, and text models.
• Groq's LPU AI inference technology powers xRx by 8090 Solutions, enabling real-time performance.
• Groq launched the AI Power Portal for lawyers, which won the 'Best on Groq' prize at CodeXStanford.
• Groq will be showcased at the SnowflakeDB event in Dublin on September 24 for their developer experience in building AI assistants.
• Groq has open-sourced its experimental g1 model to inspire the community to develop new strategies for o1-like reasoning.
• Mark Heaps, SVP Brand & Creative at Groq, presented on how optimized compute is revolutionizing AI at the 2024 KPMG Tech and Innovation Symposium.
• Groq sponsored a prize at Hack The North, which was won by Simon Ilincev's team.
• Mark Heaps, Chief Tech Evangelist and VP of Brand at Groq, will speak on a keynote panel about building to power AI at DataCloud USA in Austin on September 17.

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