Nvidia Starts Shipping Vera, Its First CPU Built For AI Agents
The 88-core Olympus chip pairs with two Rubin GPUs over unified memory, delivering up to 1.8 times faster agent throughput per core.
- The chip reaches 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth and doubles energy efficiency when paired with Nvidia GPUs.
- AWS received Vera on August 27, 2026, after May shipments to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure plans hundreds of thousands of Vera deployments across data centers in 2026.
Why it matters: The four labs racing to build autonomous agents already depend on chips only one company makes.