Jonathan Ross is the CEO and founder of Groq® Inc. Groq is the creator of the world’s first Language Processing Unit (LPU™), providing exceptional speed performance for AI workloads running on their LPU Inference Engine. Prior to Groq, Jonathan began what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the first-generation TPU chip. Jonathan next joined Google X’s Rapid Eval Team, the initial stage of the famed “Moonshots Factory”, where he devised and incubated new Bets (Units) for Google’s parent company, Alphabet.