Nvidia officially unveiled the Vera CPU at GTC, calling it the first processor purpose-built for agent AI and reinforcement learning (it was previously announced as part of the Vera Rubin platform). As AI shifts from generation and reasoning to autonomous agent actions—planning tasks, calling tools, executing code, verifying results—the demands on CPUs have exploded. Jensen Huang put it bluntly: "The CPU is no longer just assisting the model; it's driving the model." Vera packs 88 of Nvidia's custom Olympus cores, with each core…