Agent AI needs a dedicated CPU — Nvidia's Vera is built for it.
At GTC, Nvidia officially unveiled Vera, positioning it as the first processor designed specifically for agentic AI and reinforcement learning. It was previously announced as part of the Vera Rubin platform. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meta are already planning to deploy the chip.
As AI expands beyond generation and reasoning into autonomous action, workflows like planning tasks, calling tools, executing code, and verifying results are putting dramatically more pressure on CPUs. "The CPU is no longer just assisting the model — it's driving the model," Jensen Huang said.
Vera packs 88 of Nvidia's custom Olympus cores, each...