By Jon Martindale
Publication Date: 2026-05-19 16:12:00
Nvidia had a special delivery for OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle Cloud recently: the first Vera CPU systems.
Nvidia’s Ian Buck, VP of hyperscale and performance computing, “hand-delivered the first-ever Nvidia Vera CPUs to our partners at Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Oracle Cloud,” Nvidia tweeted on Monday. “Vera is Nvidia’s first custom CPU, purpose-built for the age of agentic AI. This is just the beginning. The road to Vera-powered systems starts here. Thank you to our partners for being on this journey with us. The best is yet to come.”
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“Agentic AI is creating a new CPU moment in the AI factory—as models move from answering to acting, Vera is purpose-built to keep that work moving at scale,” Buck said in a statement.
Vera is built from 88 Nvidia Olympus cores, each of which Nvidia claims can deliver up to 50% greater performance than the Grace CPU cores that Nvidia has used in its current-generation Blackwell GPU systems.
Buck made the first delivery of a Vera CPU system to Anthropic, stopping off at its SoMa offices in San Francisco. Then it was off to OpenAI’s Mission Bay headquarters, just a short 10-minute drive away, to hand over another Vera system to OpenAI’s head of compute infrastructure, Sachi Katti, before an hour-long trip to SpaceX’s xAI offices in Palo Alto. There, Buck met up with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX is reportedly…