As Nvidia expands beyond AI accelerators, AI startup Perplexity has confirmed that it plans to use the company’s new Vera central processing unit (CPU). The move supports Nvidia’s strategy to strengthen its presence in the CPU market, where it competes with established players such as Intel and AMD.
Nvidia expects its Vera CPU to generate $20 billion in sales by the end of its current fiscal year. Unlike the company’s AI-focused chips, Vera is designed for broader computing tasks and is part of Nvidia’s efforts to diversify its product portfolio as AI companies increasingly develop their own custom chips.
Perplexity said the new CPU is well suited for AI agent workloads, which require continuous computing without the pauses typically seen in human-operated systems. According to Nate Kupp, Vice President for Computer Enterprise and Infrastructure at Perplexity, Nvidia’s Vera CPU completed AI agent coding tasks about 1.5 times faster than traditional CPUs.
“Vera really stood out to us as just like a dead-on fit for a lot of the core workloads that we have,” Kupp said.
The company did not disclose how many Nvidia CPUs it plans to purchase.
Nvidia is entering a highly competitive CPU market that has long been dominated by Intel and AMD. However, the company is positioning Vera as a processor designed to handle modern AI-driven workloads, including autonomous AI agents that perform complex tasks continuously.
Perplexity joins a growing list of companies planning to use Nvidia’s CPU technology. Nvidia has previously confirmed that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Oracle also intend to adopt its new CPUs.
The announcement reflects Nvidia’s broader strategy to expand beyond graphics processors and AI accelerators while supporting the growing demand for infrastructure capable of powering next-generation AI applications.
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