Jonathan Ross is an American tech entrepreneur and engineer, best known as the founder and CEO of Groq, a company focused on building ultra-fast processors designed specifically for artificial intelligence workloads. Prior to starting Groq in 2016, Ross worked at Google, where he was the lead architect of the first-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom-built chip created to accelerate machine learning tasks.
At Groq, Ross set out to push the boundaries of compute performance, creating the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a processor designed to handle large language models and other demanding AI applications with exceptional speed and efficiency. Under his leadership, Groq has emerged as a key player in the AI hardware space, known for its innovative approach to designing chips tailored for real-time inference tasks. Ross continues to be a prominent voice in the field of AI infrastructure, advocating for new computing architectures that can meet the growing demands of AI systems.
