Jensen Huang: NVIDIA Vera CPU Unveiled — First Processor Purpose-Built for AI Agents, Anthropic and OpenAI Are Launch Customers

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Jensen Huang announced Vera, a standalone data center CPU with 88 custom Olympus cores, 227 billion transistors, and 1.2TB/s LPDDR5X memory bandwidth, designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA claims 1.8x faster task completion than x86 CPUs for agent inference. Initial customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX, with mass shipments beginning fall 2026. This is the first CPU designed around agent workloads rather than general compute, marking a new hardware category.