NVIDIA has chosen SpaceX as one of the first companies to use its new Vera CPU. This is NVIDIA’s first processor built specifically to handle the demanding tasks of advanced, AI-powered systems.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk quickly showed his support for the collaboration, sharing the announcement on X and making a playful comment about the chip’s name.
NVIDIA Ships First Vera Units to SpaceX
NVIDIA has confirmed that the first Vera chips were sent directly to major companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. NVIDIA’s dedicated team for large-scale customers personally delivered these initial units, signaling the beginning of broader availability for commercial use.
The Vera CPU features 88 custom-built NVIDIA Olympus cores and can handle up to 1.2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth with LPDDR5X memory. NVIDIA says this chip is up to 50% faster than other similar CPUs in data centers, while also using half the energy.
As a crypto investor, I’m really excited about NVIDIA’s latest news. They’ve built a new system with a massive 256-CPU setup that can run over 22,500 different AI ‘agents’ at top speed. This is all part of their bigger Rubin platform, which they announced back in March 2026. It suggests a huge leap forward in the infrastructure needed for things like AI trading and complex crypto analysis – potentially unlocking a lot of new opportunities.
Musk Reacts on X
Elon Musk responded quickly after NVIDIA’s AI team publicly thanked SpaceX for helping them test a new chip.
Vera nice, Vera nice … 🤌
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2026
He’s excited about the recent combination of xAI and SpaceX. The newly formed AI division, now called SpaceXAI, is already up and running with powerful supercomputers – Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 – located in Memphis.
Why Vera Matters for Agentic AI
The release of the Vera processor marks NVIDIA’s initial major effort to create CPUs specifically designed for AI agents, a departure from their traditionally dominant GPU products. This launch comes as businesses increasingly seek solutions that use AI agents to manage and coordinate numerous smaller AI models. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang believes this agent-based technology represents the company’s next massive growth area, potentially worth trillions of dollars.
Companies like Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance, Meta, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nscale, and even SpaceX are already using this new technology. This wide range of early users shows NVIDIA isn’t just focused on providing the hardware for AI training – they aim to be a leader in the entire AI infrastructure space.
How successful Vera will be in gaining CPU market share hinges on companies like SpaceX adopting the chip beyond testing and into full-scale production. However, Vera faces competition, as companies like AMD are also developing similar chips for the same types of tasks.
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2026-05-19 14:49