NVIDIA AI Updates: August 28, 2026

1. NVIDIA Begins Shipping Vera, Its First CPU Built for AI Agents

NVIDIA. NVIDIA said its Vera CPU, the company’s first custom-designed processor built for agentic AI workloads, is now shipping to early partners. The chip pairs 88 custom Olympus cores with 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth and delivers up to 1.8x faster per-core performance on agentic tasks such as orchestration, tool-calling, reinforcement learning, and long-context state management. NVIDIA said initial systems went to AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, with Oracle planning to deploy hundreds of thousands of Vera CPUs beginning in 2026 as the first hyperscale cloud provider deployment. Source

2. GeForce NOW Adds DLSS 4.5 Controls and New Titles at Gamescom 2026

NVIDIA. At Gamescom 2026, NVIDIA detailed new DLSS 4.5 technology controls coming to GeForce NOW Ultimate members this fall, giving cloud players more choice over how supported games look and perform through AI-driven Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation for lower latency, and ray reconstruction. The update also expands platform reach with Firefox browser support on Windows, GOG single sign-on, Steam Machine support, and additional Amazon Fire TV devices. Thirteen games join the library this week, including day-one streaming for titles such as CONTROL Resonant, Gears of War: E-Day, and STAR WARS Zero Company. Source