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  "markdown": "Founder, Groq; now at Nvidia.\n\nJonathan Ross founded Groq in 2016 with a group of former Google engineers, having been one of the designers of Google's Tensor Processing Unit. In December 2025 he joined Nvidia under a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq's inference technology, while Groq carried on as an independent company.\n\n## What Jonathan builds\n\n- [Groq Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 71.8/100, in Speech-to-text. Groq's hosted speech-to-text API. It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode. Founder, Groq; now at Nvidia, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Douglas Wightman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/douglas-wightman/), Co-founder and first CEO, Groq\n- [Gavin Hogan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gavin-hogan/), Head of Platform Engineering\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Disruptive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/disruptive/)\n- [Infinitum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/infinitum/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Jonathan Ross?\n\nJonathan Ross founded Groq in 2016 with a group of former Google engineers, having been one of the designers of Google's Tensor Processing Unit. In December 2025 he joined Nvidia under a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq's inference technology, while Groq carried on as an independent company.\n\n### What does Groq make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Groq Speech-to-Text from Groq. Groq's hosted speech-to-text API. It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode.\n\n### Who has invested in Groq?\n\nThe sources our research read name Disruptive, Infinitum and NVIDIA.\n\n### How are Jonathan's tools graded?\n\nGroq Speech-to-Text is graded BB, 71.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text\n- https://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqs\n- https://groq.com/\n- https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groq\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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