Nvidia Unveils Vera CPU, Set to Revolutionize AI Infrastructure with Major Industry Adoption
May 19, 2026
Nvidia executives emphasize agentic AI and the expected impact on AI infrastructure, framing Vera within broader AI workflows.
Early adopters include Anthropic, OpenAI, OCI, and SpaceXAI, with Vera designed for agentic AI capable of scaling tasks rather than only answering questions.
Nvidia has begun production and shipping its Vera CPU to premier AI players, with initial systems already delivered to Anthropic, OpenAI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and xAI.
The Vera CPU features 88 Olympus cores, 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth, and per-core performance roughly 50% faster under full load than comparable designs, optimized for sustained, concurrent workloads.
Vera serves as the host processor for the Vera Rubin NVL72 stack, which combines NVLink and twin Rubin GPUs for a scalable AI solution.
Industry observers expect significant interest from other large AI and cloud providers in adopting Vera for large-scale AI workloads.
Oracle executives anticipate strong customer interest once Vera systems are testable, underscoring Oracle’s role as an early-scale adopter.
xAI is testing Vera for reinforcement learning and agent-based workloads, with Elon Musk receiving a detailed technical briefing.
Jensen Huang introduced Vera at GTC San Jose, calling it a multi-billion-dollar potential revenue driver for Nvidia.
OCI plans to deploy hundreds of thousands of Vera CPUs starting in 2026, making Vera production-grade for enterprise-scale agentic AI workloads and positioning OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to deploy Vera.
Oracle is the first cloud provider expected to deploy Vera at hyperscale, with hundreds of thousands of CPUs planned beginning in 2026.
Vera and the Rubin-based systems are slated to go on sale later in 2026 as part of Nvidia’s broader hardware refresh.
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