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Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Rolled out for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs
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Agentic AI has always called for a different kind of CPU.
Key facts
- Vera packs 88 custom NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores, 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth and 50% faster per-core performance
- On Monday inside the Oracle AI Customer Excellence Center, a team from OCI, including Karan Batta, who leads overall product management, and Gary Miller, chief customer and partner success officer
- OCI plans to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Vera CPUs beginning in 2026 because agentic AI demands sustained performance at massive scale,” said Batta
- Vera is part of NVIDIA’s extreme co-design story, alongside the NVIDIA Rubin GPU, BlueField 4 DPU, Spectrum-X and MGX rack architecture
Summary
On Friday, that CPU went from NVIDIA’s labs into customer hands. The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world’s leading AI labs on Friday, Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto, followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara on Monday. “ Agentic AI is creating a new CPU moment in the AI factory, as models move from answering to acting, Vera is purpose-built to keep that work moving at scale, ” Buck said. NVIDIA’s Ian Buck hand-delivered the first-ever NVIDIA Vera CPUs to their partners,, and. . Vera is NVIDIA’s first custom CPU, purpose-built for the age of agentic AI.