Several key creators of Google's Tensor Processing Unit or TPU, the company’s most secretive AI projects, have left to join a stealth start-up.Known only as Groq Inc., the start-up is formed by Chamath Palihapitiya, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and outspoken young venture investors, CNBC reported.Groq is a start-up in stealth mode thought to be working on a TPU. The firm’s website provided no details except a couple of SEC filings from October and December showing that the company raised $10.3 million.
“We’re really excited about Groq,” Mr Palihapitiya wrote in an e-mail. “It’s too early to talk specifics, but we think what they’re building could become a fundamental building block for the next generation of computing.”The company now has eight of the first 10 people from the TPU team “building a next-generation chip,” Mr Palihapitiya said.
