Recently, NVIDIA announced that its first custom CPU designed specifically for Agentic AI, Vera, has been successfully shipped to several leading AI companies. This landmark event marks the official start of mass production for the Vera CPU, laying a solid foundation for the development of future agent AI.

Vera CPU is a new processor launched by NVIDIA, featuring 88 self-developed Olympus cores, with a memory bandwidth of up to 1.2TB/s, and performance that is 50% higher than its predecessor, the Grace CPU. The design of this processor aims to support large-scale agent AI workloads, maintaining strong single-core performance even under high loads.

Last Friday, Ian Buck, Vice President at NVIDIA, personally delivered the first Vera CPU systems to companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle. James Bradbury, Head of Computing at Anthropic, stated that the improvement in computing power is key to advancing models. He expressed his anticipation for the arrival of Vera, believing it will become an essential component of the ecosystem.

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In the headquarters of OpenAI, Sachin Katti, Head of Computing Infrastructure at OpenAI, expressed gratitude for Buck's visit and even demonstrated the internal structure of Vera on-site. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceXAI, personally signed for the equipment and showed great interest in technical details such as the number of cores and memory layout of the CPU. They hope to use Vera to optimize reinforcement learning workloads and agent simulation pipelines.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team also paid attention to the unboxing of the Vera CPU, planning to deploy hundreds of thousands of Vera CPUs starting in 2026 to meet the demand for efficient computing in Agentic AI. Kalan Batra, a representative from Oracle, stated that Vera's architecture will significantly improve the efficiency of reasoning workloads, helping the development of the next generation of enterprise AI.

With the mass production of Vera CPU, NVIDIA also plans to release the Vera Rubin platform in the coming days. Vera CPU will not only be sold as an independent product but will also be integrated with NVIDIA's Rubin GPU and other systems, forming an efficient computing architecture to meet future demands. It can be said that the release of Vera CPU will provide powerful momentum for the arrival of the Agentic AI era.

Key Points:

🌟 Vera CPU is specifically designed for Agentic AI, with a 50% performance improvement over its predecessor.

💡 NVIDIA has already delivered the first batch of Vera CPUs to several leading AI companies, including OpenAI and SpaceXAI.