The company
Groq
groq.comLPU hardware and cloud platform for high-speed AI inference.
The story
A hardware and software innovator designing purpose-built Language Processing Units (LPUs) for high-speed AI inference from chip to cloud.
Developers faced sluggish feedback cycles where routine tasks took 10 to 15 minutes, preventing real-time collaboration with AI agents. Existing tools defaulted to slow frontier models and lacked the flexibility to switch between different models for specific engineering needs.
The engineering team adopted Factory's Droid CLI to run multiple coding agents in parallel, utilizing their own high-speed inference infrastructure for rapid execution. This model-agnostic architecture allows developers to switch instantly between open-source models for routine tasks and frontier models for complex logic. The system handles codebase queries, debugging, and test coverage analysis directly within the command-line interface.
Scope & timeline
- Developer feedback loops cut from 15 mins to 30 secs
Quotes
“Droid is an exceptional CLI. It's very fast, intuitive, and it works with all of the models I frequently use. Pair Droid with fast inference from Groq and it genuinely unlocks new use cases for AI coding agents within my development cycle.”