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Nvidia has won a CPU chip order from AI startup Modal. Modal previously relied entirely on chips from Intel and AMD, and this order is an early sign that Nvidia's push into the CPU market—long dominated by Intel and AMD—is bearing fruit. Modal's official engineering blog disclosed that Nvidia delivered the first Vera CPU server to Modal; Vera is Nvidia's new Arm-compatible CPU for the Vera Rubin GPU platform, and it can also be used as a standalone CPU server. On Modal's self-built Agentless Agent Bench (50 Terminal-Bench oracle tasks), Vera doubled Modal Sandboxes throughput. Modal previously ran only x86 machines and had to modify its infrastructure and image build system to support Arm; Modal says that under heavy load Vera's latency performance is actually better.
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NVIDIA Vera CPU Doubles Modal Sandboxes Throughput
NVIDIA delivered the first Vera CPU server to Modal. On Modal's self-built Agentless Agent Bench (50 Terminal-Bench oracle tasks), Vera increased Modal Sandboxes throughput by 2x. Vera is NVIDIA's new Arm-compatible CPU for the Vera Rubin GPU platform, and can also be used as a standalone CPU server; Modal previously ran only x86 machines and needed to rework its infrastructure and image build system to support Arm. Modal says that under heavy load Vera's latency performance is actually better, breaking the usual throughput-latency tradeoff.