Buck explained how Vera will help.
“When AI models are posed a question, the answer, often, isn’t already prepped and ready to go. “The models actually have to generate some Python code to arrive at the correct answer,” Buck said. A task at which the Vera CPU excels. “That’s why we are seeing the demand for CPUs skyrocket,” Buck continued.
A trend the OCI team was also witnessing.
“OCI plans to deploy hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Vera CPUs beginning in 2026 because agentic AI demands sustained performance at massive scale,” said Batta. “Vera’s architecture is purpose-built for high-throughput reasoning workloads, delivering the efficiency, density and footprint OCI needs to power the next generation of enterprise AI.”
OCI is the first cloud provider to deploy Vera at hyperscale. For enterprise customers, that means production-grade agentic AI infrastructure at a scale no other cloud provider can match today.
The OCI team was eager to put Vera to work, offering their customers another system to customize and validate their agentic AIs and workloads, Miller said. “I am really looking forward to the reaction of people who come through here, and working together to get the most from Vera,” he said.
What Vera Delivers
Vera is part of NVIDIA’s extreme codesign story, alongside the NVIDIA Rubin GPU, BlueField-4 DPU, Spectrum-X and MGX rack architecture.
In addition to powering standalone CPU systems, Vera is the host processor for Vera Rubin NVL72 where it pairs via second-generation NVIDIA NVLink-C2C to a pair of Rubin GPUs.
In these systems, Vera and Rubin share a unified memory architecture that keeps accelerated compute highly utilized.
Vera’s fast CPU cores and interconnect handle orchestration, control and data movement needed to feed GPUs at 2x the energy efficiency of traditional infrastructure.
The age of agentic AI has a purpose-built CPU, and its name is Vera.
Learn more about the NVIDIA Vera CPU.
