On August 27, 2026, NVIDIA announced that its first CPU designed specifically for agentic AI, Vera, has begun volume shipments. Ian Buck, NVIDIA's Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC, personally delivered Vera CPU systems to several partners, including AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI.
AWS received its first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU in Seattle, hand-delivered by Ian Buck to AWS Vice President Willem Visser and Vice President of Hardware Engineering Supreeth Sheshardi. Earlier, in May, NVIDIA had delivered initial Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle Cloud.