Nvidia just did something it has never done before: built a CPU that doesn’t care about you. The company’s new Vera CPU is designed not for human users, but for AI agents, the autonomous software systems that reason, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks without waiting for someone to click a button.
CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the Vera CPU has entered full production, with early deployments already shipping to Anthropic, OpenAI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and SpaceXAI.
What makes Vera different
Nvidia designed Vera from scratch for agentic AI tasks: orchestration, tool usage, sandboxing, reinforcement learning, and the kind of relentless data processing that AI agents demand.
Under the hood, Vera packs 88 custom Olympus cores and supports up to 1.2 TB/s of LPDDR5X bandwidth. Nvidia claims the chip completes agentic tasks 1.8 times faster than current leading x86 CPUs, with some workloads hitting 50% speed improvements.
