Paytm partners with Groq to bring real-time AI acceleration to digital payments

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Paytm has announced a strategic partnership with Groq, a California-based AI hardware and computing company, to power real-time AI capabilities within its digital payments platform. The collaboration aims to enhance transaction processing, anomaly detection, and system efficiency through Groq’s high-speed Language Processing Units (LPUs).

Groq’s hardware architecture enables ultra-low latency AI inference, allowing Paytm to run large models for fraud analytics, voice-assisted payments, and smart credit risk assessment — all in real time. This technology integration is expected to significantly reduce response times during high-volume transactions and strengthen Paytm’s data security framework.

According to company officials, the partnership will also help expand Paytm’s capabilities in predictive financial services, enabling smarter decision-making for both merchants and consumers. Groq’s scalable processing power allows AI models to operate directly within Paytm’s existing systems without cloud lag, ensuring faster, localised data handling.

Experts see this as a pivotal move in India’s fintech sector, where AI-driven payment intelligence is emerging as a key differentiator. With this collaboration, Paytm becomes one of the first Indian fintech platforms to adopt AI acceleration hardware for real-time decisioning.

This alliance underscores Paytm’s broader goal of merging AI infrastructure with financial technology, reinforcing its leadership position in India’s digital payments innovation.