Perplexity to use Nvidia's new CPUs for AI agent tasks

Investing.com -- AI startup Perplexity said Tuesday it will use Nvidia's new central processing units as the chip maker expands into a market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

Nvidia said it expects to generate $20 billion in sales from its Vera CPU by the end of this fiscal year. The Vera chips represent a shift toward more generic computing products as artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and DeepSeek develop their own AI-specific chips.

The CPU market has long been controlled by Intel and AMD, which supply processors for devices ranging from laptops to web servers. Many existing chips were designed before AI agents emerged that can complete complex tasks independently after receiving instructions from users.

AI agents operate continuously without breaks between tasks, unlike human users. Nate Kupp, Perplexity's vice president for computer enterprise and infrastructure, said Nvidia's CPU performs AI agent coding tasks about 1.5 times faster than traditional CPUs.

Perplexity did not say how many Nvidia CPUs it plans to purchase. Nvidia previously announced that OpenAI, Anthropic and Oracle will use its CPUs.

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