Perplexity says it plans to use Nvidia's new CPU 

By Stephen Nellis

SAN FRANCISCO, ‌July 7 (Reuters) - ​AI ​startup Perplexity on Tuesday confirmed it plans to use Nvidia's new central processing units, as the chip ‌giant works to broaden its market and take on ⁠entrenched players such as Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

Nvidia has said it ‌expects to generate $20 billion ‌in sales from its "Vera" CPU, a more generic computing chip than its AI-specific offerings, by the end of this ​fiscal year. The Vera chips are part of Nvidia's efforts to diversify sales as artificial intelligence companies such as ⁠OpenAI and DeepSeek make their own AI chips.

Nvidia is entering a crowded market for ​CPUs long dominated by Intel and AMD, who supply CPUs for everything from laptops to web servers. ​But many of those chips ‌were designed before the rise of what are known as AI "agents" that can carry out complex ⁠tasks on their own after receiving instructions from their human users.

Unlike human users of CPUs, who take breaks between tasks, AI agents ⁠do not. Perplexity Vice President for Computer Enterprise and Infrastructure Nate Kupp ​said Nvidia's CPU carried out AI agent coding tasks about 1.5 times faster than traditional 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 said ‌in an interview.

Perplexity declined to disclose how many Nvidia CPUs it ⁠plans to buy. Nvidia ‌has previously disclosed that ​OpenAI, Anthropic and Oracle plan to use its CPUs.

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San FranciscoEditing by Bill ‌Berkrot)

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