Groq

Groq runs Llama, Mixtral, Gemma, and other open models on its own custom Language Processing Unit chips, purpose-built for sequential token generation, and the result is inference speed that's typically 10-20x faster than GPU-based cloud providers. Developers use its API as a near drop-in OpenAI replacement wherever latency actually matters — real-time voice apps, low-latency agent pipelines — where a slow model response breaks the whole experience.