Perplexity AI, the startup behind the AI search engine Perplexity, is adopting Nvidia's new Vera central processing unit (CPU), with an executive describing it as a "dead-on fit" for the AI startup's core workloads, Reuters recently reported.

Nate Kupp, vice president for enterprise infrastructure, said the chip completed agent coding tasks about 1.5 times faster than traditional server CPUs. "Vera really stood out to us as just like a dead-on fit for a lot of the core workloads that we have," Kupp told Reuters. Perplexity declined to disclose how many of the chips it plans to purchase.

The move provides an early customer win for Nvidia as it pushes into a server CPU market long dominated by Intel and AMD. The Vera chip is designed for the continuous demands of AI agents, autonomous software that performs complex tasks without the breaks human users take between commands. Nvidia expects $20 billion in sales from Vera by the end of its fiscal year.

The chip giant is seeking to diversify its revenue as major AI firms, including OpenAI and DeepSeek, develop their own custom processors. Nvidia has previously said OpenAI, Anthropic, and Oracle also plan to use Vera CPUs.