Chip giant Nvidia has announced its Vera CPU will be available as a standalone offering, with neocloud CoreWeave to be the first company to get its hands on the chips.

In an interview with Bloomberg following the news that Nvidia was investing an additional $2 billion in the AI cloud provider, CEO Jensen Huang described the CPU as “completely revolutionary,” adding that besides CoreWeave, there would be “many” other customers deploying the chip, although he declined to name them.

"For the very first time, we're going to be offering Vera CPUs. Vera is such an incredible CPU. We're going to offer Vera CPUs as a standalone part of the infrastructure,” Huang said. “You can now run your computing stack not only on Nvidia GPUs but also on Nvidia CPUs. Vera is completely revolutionary... CoreWeave will have to act quickly if they want to be the first to implement Vera CPUs. We haven't announced any of our CPU design wins yet, but there will be many."

Until now, Vera has only been available as part of the company’s Vera Rubin Superchip, which combines the Arm-based Vera CPU, the successor to Nvidia’s Grace CPU, with the company’s Rubin GPU, the successor to Blackwell. Vera contains 88 custom Arm cores, 176 threads, and 1.8TBps NVLink-C2C.

No information about when or where CoreWeave will deploy the CPUs was provided. Nvidia said the additional $2bn investment in the neocloud aims to help it speed up its build-out of more than 5GW of AI capacity by 2030, with the chip giant also planning to assist CoreWeave with the purchase of land and power for data centers.

According to Bloomberg data, prior to the latest investment, Nvidia was already the fourth largest holder of CoreWeave shares, although Huang told the news outlet that the idea that the investment is "circular" is "ridiculous."

Earlier this month, a CoreWeave investor filed a class action suit against the company, claiming the company had misled investors about its ability to meet capacity demand from customers.