Groq Valued at $3.5B After Funding

The valuation signals that capital continues to flow toward AI inference hardware, a segment distinct from the GPU training narrative that has dominated attention. For RWA readers, the relevance is indirect: cheaper, faster inference could lower the cost of building the analytics and automation layers that tokenized asset platforms rely on, but the item itself establishes no such link. Whether AI hardware funding keeps outpacing other crypto-adjacent infrastructure categories is the open question worth tracking.