The Vera CPU is not an incremental SKU — it is NVIDIA's bid to own the compute layer that agentic AI requires before any other chipmaker defines it. With 88 Olympus cores and 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, Vera addresses a bottleneck that GPU architectures were never designed to solve: the orchestration overhead of persistent, multi-step agent workflows. The labs receiving first production units — Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, Oracle Cloud — are precisely the organizations whose workloads will determine whether agentic AI scales or stalls on infrastructure limits.