New Delhi: NVIDIA, the global leader in chipmaking, has now given AI labs across the US a new toy—the Vera CPU.
So far, CPUs have been designed for general computing tasks like browsing through websites, making spreadsheets, and running operating systems. But Vera is the first of its kind, designed specially for ‘agentic AI’, the kind of AI systems that can independently reason, make decisions, use tools, and summon and analyse data when required.“Vera nice, vera nice,” wrote Elon Musk on X, in his characteristic humour, when the Vera CPU made its way to the SpaceX lab.
However, Musk isn’t the only one to get his hands on NVIDIA’s new experiment.On Friday, NVIDIA’s CPUs were taken to three of the world’s leading AI labs—Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto and then Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara on Monday. The CPUs were hand-delivered by NVIDIA’s Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, Ian Buck.While the common man’s understanding of AI is limited to chatbots, the next generations of AI are being built to work independently, to plan, reason, and act without human intervention. To do so, AI needs the hardware to keep up with. This is where Vera steps in.New age CPU
