Ian Buck hand-delivers the first NVIDIA Vera CPU systems to Anthropic, OpenAI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and SpaceXAI — marking the moment agentic CPUs move from announcement to production.

Agentic AI has always called for a different kind of CPU. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced the answer — the standalone Vera CPU — at GTC San Jose in March as NVIDIA’s next multibillion dollar business.

On Friday, that CPU went from NVIDIA’s labs into customer hands.

The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world’s leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara on Monday.…