NVIDIA Vera CPU: The Foundation for Agentic AI

NVIDIA presents Vera, a CPU designed for agentic AI workloads such as tool calls, code execution, sandboxes and reinforcement learning loops. The talk traces how cloud economics shaped CPU design toward high core counts at the expense of per-core speed, then explains how Vera's Olympus core, monolithic fabric and LPDDR5X memory deliver high single-threaded performance at scale. CoreWeave then shares its early results running Vera for sandboxes and agent workloads.