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 wouldnβt.
OpenAIβs 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.
β’ We're faster because we designed our chip & systems
β’ It's an LPU, Language Processing Unit (not a GPU)
β’ We use open-source models, but we don't train them
β’ 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.
Who needs sleep?
Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 just landed.
200+ T/s, $1.50/M tokens.
256k context window.
Built for coding. Rivals Sonnet 4. Available now. π
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! π
π§ Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think β one model, two modes
β‘οΈ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528
π οΈ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick from @Meta are now live on GroqCloudβ’.
Day-zero access. Real-time performance. Lowest costβwithout 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:
β 1T parameters
β Full context
β Built for agents
β Unmatched price-performance
Build Fast. Link in Comments.