NVIDIA unveils Vera, a CPU touted for agentic AI workloads that require extensive CPU power for orchestration, tool-calling, and long-context management.

Vera is presented as unlocking a new segment of the AI infrastructure market by meeting rising CPU demands in agentic AI workloads at cloud providers and AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

The Vera CPU features 88 Olympus cores and up to 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth, with claims of up to 1.8 times faster per-core performance for agentic AI tasks.

StartupHub.ai data suggests NVIDIA is strong in AI hardware overall (score of 82/100), while Vera as an early-stage product category scores 2/100.

NVIDIA expands collaboration with Amazon Web Services, aiming to add 2 million more GPUs and integrate Vera CPU-based infrastructure into AWS.

Ian Buck personally delivered Vera CPU systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, highlighting strategic importance and early adoption by major AI players.