NVIDIA Begins Hand-Delivering Its First Custom CPU 'Vera' to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Other Top AI Labs
Summary
NVIDIA is hand-delivering its first custom CPU, Vera, to top AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and 50% faster per-core performance designed for agentic AI workloads, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set to deploy hundreds of thousands of units at hyperscale starting in 2026.
Key Points
- NVIDIA's first custom CPU, called Vera, is now being hand-delivered to top AI labs including Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, marking its transition from announcement to production.
- Vera is purpose-built for agentic AI workloads, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and 50% faster per-core performance to handle orchestration, tool-calling, and agent sandboxing at scale.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the first cloud provider to deploy Vera at hyperscale, with plans to roll out hundreds of thousands of units beginning in 2026 to power next-generation enterprise AI workloads.