NVIDIA detailed Vera, a CPU designed for agentic AI workloads where tool calls, code execution, retrieval, and verification sit between model calls. The company claims 50% higher IPC than Grace and 1.8x sustained per-core performance versus x86 on agentic execution workloads.
NVIDIA says Vera is now in full production and can complete agentic workloads 1.8x faster than x86 CPUs. OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, ByteDance, CoreWeave, and OCI are among the names tied to adoption or evaluation.
NVIDIA unveiled Vera CPU on March 23, 2026. The company says it is the first CPU purpose-built for the age of agentic AI and reinforcement learning, delivering 50% faster results and twice the efficiency of traditional rack-scale CPUs.