NVIDIA personally delivers the first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle, while Grace’s successor ushers in the era of agent AI

NVIDIA has started shipping very first Vera CPUs to large AI companies, marking the official start of production to advance Agentic AI.

NVIDIA Vera CPUs designed specifically for agent AI are now in full production as the company distributes initial chips to multiple AI firms

The Vera CPU is the next chapter for NVIDIA’s Agentic AI ecosystem, setting the stage for the next multibillion-dollar frontier.

• What it is – NVIDIA’s first custom CPU designed for agentic AI
• What it processes – Orchestration, tool invocation, RL workloads, data analysis, agent sandboxing, long-term context state management
• Who it is for – AI labs, cloud providers and companies running agent AI at scale
• Core specifications — 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth, 50% faster per core under full load

Today, NVIDIA’s Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, Ian Buck, personally delivered the first Vera CPUs to four major AI companies…