AI startup Perplexity is reportedly planning to use Nvidia's new Vera central processing units (CPUs), as the chipmaker pushes into a market long dominated by Intel and AMD. As reported by news agency Reuters, the move comes as Nvidia looks to expand beyond its AI chips and grow its presence in the broader CPU market. Nvidia has said it expects its Vera CPUs to generate $20 billion in sales by the end of its current fiscal year. The move is also part of the company's strategy to diversify its business as AI companies increasingly develop their own custom AI chips.Perplexity says Vera CPU is faster for AI agent workloadsAccording to Reuters, Nvidia is entering the CPU market at a time when AI agents are becoming more common. Unlike human users, AI agents can work continuously without breaks, creating different computing demands.Perplexity Vice President for Computer Enterprise and Infrastructure Nate Kupp said the company's tests showed Nvidia's Vera CPU performed AI agent coding tasks about 1.5 times faster than traditional CPUs."Vera really stood out to us as just like a dead-on fit for a lot of the core workloads that we have," Kupp said in an interview as cited in the Reuters report.Perplexity did not disclose how many Vera CPUs it plans to purchase. Nvidia has previously said that OpenAI, Anthropic and Oracle also plan to use its new CPUs.Recently, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that the standard 9-to-5 desk job lifestyle isn't a natural evolution of work, but rather a brilliant corporate blueprint designed by Microsoft to sell software. In a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Srinivas claimed that Microsoft engineered the modern American office worker purely as a business strategy.According to Srinivas, the culture of sitting at a desk all day staring at a screen was intentionally built from the ground up. “Microsoft built this concept of the office worker because they wanted to sell office software,” Srinivas claimed, adding, “It was the mission of Bill Gates to put a PC on every desk and get people glued to them.”The revelation caught Rogan off guard, causing him to reflect on how quickly society adapted to this routine. “Wow. This type of lifestyle is a very recent thing that we’ve just now accepted as normal,” Rogan remarked, adding “they nail that one.”