Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now

Editor’s Note: This blog, 27, 2026.  AWS and NVIDIA announced yesterday a major expansion of their 16-year collaboration, including plans for 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs and work to bring Vera CPU-based infrastructure to AWS.  AWS has received its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU, hand-delivered in Seattle by NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck. AWS is the latest stop in Vera’s rapid journey across the AI ecosystem.

Previously, Buck delivered Vera CPU systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and three leading AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.  “Agentic AI is creating a new CPU moment in the AI factory — as models move from answering to acting, Vera is purpose-built to keep that work moving at scale,” Buck said. The big idea: imagine you could work 10x faster. Could your computer keep up? Agentic AI puts more demand than ever on the infrastructure people use to do all kinds of work — from building slides to compiling and testing software, analyzing data, searching files or even running simulations. AI agents don’t run on GPUs alone. Every agentic sandbox, every tool call, every orchestration layer, every long-context retrieval operation — that’s CPU work. Vera is a new class of CPU designed with that reality as its starting point. This gauntlet of concurrent, real-time tasks puts pressure on CPUs in ways traditional core-density-focused designs were never built to prioritize. Vera packs 88 custom NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth and delivers up to 1.8x faster per-core performance on agentic AI workloads. Under constant load, work completes more quickly — increasing the efficiency of the entire AI factory and helping users get their work done with faster responses. Buck rolled AWS’ first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU past the Spheres in Seattle and handed them off to Willem Visser, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. They were joined by Supreeth Sheshardi, vice president of Amazon EC2 hardware engineering, and dove into the details of what Vera and Vera Rubin will bring to AWS customers. NVIDIA’s Ian Buck hand-delivered the first-ever NVIDIA Vera CPUs to our partners @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @SpaceX, and @OracleCloud. 🎉 Vera is NVIDIA’s first custom CPU, purpose-built for the age of agentic AI. This is just the beginning.