NVIDIA has commenced shipments of its first custom-designed Vera CPUs to several top artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle Cloud. This milestone marks Vera’s official entry into production and deployment, targeting the fast-growing demands of agentic AI, a form of AI capable of autonomous decision-making and sophisticated task execution.
The Vera CPU is NVIDIA’s breakthrough product, crafted to meet the specialized needs of agentic AI applications. It handles complex workloads such as orchestration, tool-calling, reinforcement learning, extensive data analytics, long-context memory management, and secure agent sandboxing. With 88 custom Olympus cores and advanced technologies like NVIDIA Spatial Multi-Threading, Vera delivers exceptional single-threaded performance and energy efficiency, alongside 1.2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth using LPDDR5X memory—the first data center CPU to do so.
The initial batch of Vera CPUs was personally delivered by NVIDIA’s Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, Ian Buck, to AI leaders at their headquarters. The shipments reached Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, SpaceX's Palo Alto office where Elon Musk received a unit, and Oracle’s AI Customer Excellence Center soon after. These deliveries represent just a fraction of the high volume NVIDIA plans to ship in the coming months as demand surges in the AI sector.
Vera is designed not only for integration within NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform but also as standalone servers. The chip incorporates cutting-edge features including an Olympus Arm architecture, 176 threads per CPU, and a 1.8 terabytes per second NVLink coherent memory interconnect. It supports up to 1.5 terabytes of system memory, tripling capacity compared to NVIDIA’s previous Grace CPUs, and offers rack-scale confidential computing. These advancements enable up to double the data processing, compression, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) speeds.
Several other prominent tech companies, such as CoreWeave, Meta, and Alibaba, have also committed to adopting the Vera CPUs. This growing adoption underlines the Vera chip’s potential to open a new multi-billion-dollar market segment focused on agentic AI infrastructure and large-scale AI deployments.