Jonathan Ross

Chief Software Architect, Nvidia

Search every verified Jonathan Ross interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jonathan Ross, founder of Groq and inventor of Google's TPU, has been discussing the company's near-collapse and subsequent partnership with Nvidia. He described a period when Groq was about three weeks from running out of money and considered layoffs, but instead implemented a salary-for-equity exchange called "Groq bonds," which he said 80% of employees participated in, with about half reducing their salaries to the statutory minimum. Ross stated that this move saved the company. He also discussed a $20 billion partnership with Nvidia, describing it as combining GPUs and LPUs for better performance, analogous to using both 18-wheelers and delivery vans in a logistics network. Ross has spoken about the future of AI compute, stating that "as long as there are unsolved problems in civilization, we will have a need for more compute" and that "there's no way to satiate the appetite for intelligence." He has advocated for revamping education to focus on asking questions rather than providing answers, saying "if you can come up with the right question, AI can go answer it for you." Ross also distinguished between intelligence and sentience, defining sentience as "your rate of improvement in your intelligence" and suggesting that AI is creating a feedback loop that accelerates societal intelligence.