# NVIDIA Vera CPU **Entity class:** CPU architecture for agentic AI **Developer:** [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]] **As of:** 2026-09-28 ## Definition **NVIDIA Vera CPU** is NVIDIA's processor architecture for agentic reasoning, orchestration, tool execution, task planning, sandboxed code execution and data processing. Within the [[wiki/NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform|NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform]], Vera is the optimized host for [[wiki/NVIDIA OpenShell|OpenShell]] and the agent control plane. NVIDIA states that OpenShell remains extensible to other compute platforms, so Vera optimization is not the same as a universal hardware requirement. ## Relationships - **runs the optimized agent runtime:** [[wiki/NVIDIA OpenShell|NVIDIA OpenShell]]. - **reference design:** [[wiki/NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform|NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform]]. - **paired infrastructure security:** [[wiki/BlueField-4|NVIDIA BlueField-4]] and [[wiki/NVIDIA Sentry|NVIDIA Sentry]]. ## Related Articles - [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] — places this node within the managed transition from concentrated machine advantage to governed public agent deployment. ## Sources / Provenance - [NVIDIA — Open Agent Safety Platform](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/ai/agent-safety/). - [NVIDIA Newsroom — platform launch, September 28, 2026](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-agent-safety-platform).