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Groq: $6.9B Valuation and HUMAIN Partnership

By: Jasmin Espinas

Updated: September 17, 2025

Published: September 17, 2025

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Groq, founded by a former engineer at Alphabet, has been gaining attention among emerging semiconductor companies.

This article covers two developments: Groq’s new $6.9 billion valuation and how OpenAI models are now running on GroqCloud following its partnership with HUMAIN.

Groq Hits $6.9 Billion Valuation as Investors Back AI Chips

Groq announced on September 17 that it raised $750 million in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation to $6.9 billion.

Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. raised $750 million at a post-funding valuation of $6.9 billion https://t.co/cytpa4fVvL

— Bloomberg (@business) September 17, 2025

This marks a sharp jump from its $2.8 billion valuation in August 2023, when it secured $640 million.

In February, Groq also secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to help deploy its AI chips.

The company told investors it expects those contracts to generate around $500 million in revenue this year.

Groq and HUMAIN Partner on OpenAI’s Open Models Launch

On August 5, Groq and HUMAIN announced the immediate availability of two new OpenAI models on GroqCloud: gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B.

Both models now run with a full 128,000-token context window, delivering real-time responses and server-side tools.

This release includes integrated capabilities such as code execution and web search.

At the same time, these tools allow developers to trigger complex tasks within a single prompt.

Groq also optimized the inference delivery to support these features from the start.

Conclusion

The pace at which capital is being allocated to companies like Groq suggests that hardware differentiation is becoming a higher priority in AI deployment strategies.

Therefore, Groq’s trajectory is worth watching as a signal of how quickly this part of the market is moving.

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