This solo founder built an open-source competitor to Perplexity with no team, no funding, and no permission.
What started as a weekend project now powers over 1M searches, with 60K+ monthly users.
This is the story of @sciraai and how Zaid Mukaddam built what others wouldn’t.
OpenAI’s open models are live and already running on Groq. Try gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B today.
Groq delivers 128K context and built-in tools such as code execution and browser search. For the first time, developers and enterprises can deploy open models backed by OpenAI
Wow, that's a lot of tweets tonight! FAQs responses.
• We're faster because we designed our chip & systems
• It's an LPU, Language Processing Unit (not a GPU)
• We use open-source models, but we don't train them
• We are increasing access capacity weekly, stay tuned
Interested in seeing how @AIatMeta LLama 3.1 70B powered by Groq compares to @OpenAI GPT-4o and GPT-4o Mini? We were too, so we decided to have them face off in the StreetFighter LLM Colosseum by @_StanGirard and the team at Phospho.
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀
🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes
⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528
🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick from @Meta are now live on GroqCloud™.
Day-zero access. Real-time performance. Lowest cost—without compromise.
No waiting. No tuning. Just build fast.
1 week ago: Kimi K2 launches
72 hours later: We YOLO launch it on Groq
Now: Thousands of devs are building with it
Kimi K2, now on Groq:
✅ 1T parameters
✅ Full context
✅ Built for agents
✅ Unmatched price-performance
Build Fast. Link in Comments.