Nvidia's Vera CPU lands Modal order
10/20/2026 — 10/20, 22:20·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
Key takeaways
- Nvidia's Vera CPU has landed its first major AI-cloud customer, Modal, which plans to use it to host AI agents instead of Intel or AMD chips…
- the company raised $750 million last week at a $15.75 billion valuation.
Background & analysis
On October 20, 2026, Reuters reported that Modal, an AI cloud compute startup, plans to use Nvidia's new Vera CPU to host AI agents for the first time. Such workloads had previously run only on chips from Intel and AMD. Modal said on Monday that early tests showed the new Nvidia chip doubled task throughput for AI agents, prompting its decision to adopt Nvidia hardware for the first time; the report noted that this requires Modal to make corresponding changes to its underlying software.
Modal rents out compute to AI developers. According to the report, the company last week closed a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a post-money valuation of $15.75 billion, and it expects revenue to reach $1 billion next year. Modal also said its service usage has tripled and year-over-year revenue has grown more than 15-fold.
The report framed the order as an early signal that Nvidia's push into the CPU market, long dominated by Intel and AMD, is beginning to bear fruit. The available information stops at Modal's announcement of the adoption plan and the early test results; details of the actual deployment have not been disclosed.
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Latest turnTom's Hardware reports that AI cloud platform Modal has adopted Nvidia's Vera CPU after internal tests showed 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips on AI agent workloads.
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Tom's Hardware reports that AI cloud platform Modal has adopted Nvidia's Vera CPU after internal tests showed 2x throughput over Intel and AMD chips on AI agent workloads.
Tom's HardwareAI score 61AI cloud startup Modal plans to use Nvidia's new Vera CPU to host AI agents, according to Reuters, marking its first move away from Intel and AMD chips for that workload. Modal says early tests showed the chip doubling agent task throughput; the company raised $750 million last week at a $15.75 billion valuation.
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