Senators Warren and Blumenthal Probe Nvidia's $20 Billion Groq Deal Over Antitrust Concerns

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal launched a probe into Nvidia's proposed $20 billion acquisition of Groq, citing antitrust concerns about Nvidia consolidating control over both AI chip manufacturing and AI inference hardware. The senators sent letters to the FTC and DOJ requesting an investigation into whether the deal would harm competition. Groq makes specialized inference chips that compete with Nvidia's own GPU-based inference offerings. The probe adds political pressure to a deal that already faces regulatory scrutiny from the FTC.