--- title: Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its... description: Modal plans to shift its AI agent sandbox product onto Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPU, marking its first move away from x86 chips from Intel and AMD. In... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/modal-says-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes-wuomvr10h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes | daily.dev og:description: Modal plans to shift its AI agent sandbox product onto Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPU, marking its first move away from x86 chips from Intel and AMD. In... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/modal-says-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes-wuomvr10h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WUoMVR10H.png og:image:alt: Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Modal plans to shift its AI agent sandbox product onto Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPU, marking its first move away from x86 chips from Intel and AMD. In Modal's own (unverified) benchmarks of 50 coding tasks, Vera matched or beat Intel, AMD and Amazon chips when run one task at a time, but pulled ahead by up to 2x when the server was packed with many containers, thanks to higher memory bandwidth. This matters for background coding agents and reinforcement learning workloads, where CPU bottlenecks can leave GPUs idle. Modal's Sandboxes product generates $300M a year and the company recently raised $750M at a $15.75B valuation. Nvidia's Vera, unveiled in March with 88 cores, already counts Anthropic, OpenAI and Perplexity among early adopters, while rival Baseten acquired Blaxel to compete in the sandbox space. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much faster is Nvidia's Vera CPU than Intel chips for AI agent sandboxes? Modal's internal benchmark of 50 coding tasks found Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when the server was packed with many containers running simultaneously. Run one task at a time, Vera was often faster than Intel, AMD, and Amazon chips, but not by much; the gains appeared specifically under heavy container density, which Modal attributes to Vera's higher memory bandwidth. These results come from Modal's own tests and have not been independently verified. _Teams weighing CPU choices for agent workloads can follow benchmark claims like this one on daily.dev._ ### How many cores does Nvidia's Vera CPU have and who is using it? Nvidia's Vera CPU, unveiled in March as a chip built for AI agents, has 88 cores and is Arm-based rather than x86. Early named users include Anthropic and OpenAI, and Perplexity has said it will run agent work on the chip after reporting 1.5 times faster coding tasks. Modal is adopting Vera for its Sandboxes product as its first move away from x86 infrastructure. _Developers tracking Arm-based AI infrastructure adoption can follow Vera rollout news on daily.dev._ ### What is Modal's Sandboxes product and how much revenue does it generate? Modal's Sandboxes product provides isolated computers where AI agents run code they write, generating $300M a year in revenue. Workloads are unpredictable since an agent may sit idle waiting for a model response, then use ten times more computing power during a software install, with hundreds of sandboxes running side by side on each server. Modal recently raised $750M at a $15.75B valuation. _Engineers building agent execution environments can track sandbox infrastructure trends on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [NVIDIA Vera CPUs double throughput for Modal Sandboxes](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-vera-cpus-double-throughput-for-modal-sandboxes-uz7r72ho5) · Modal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [NVIDIA Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-launches-vera-cpu-purpose-built-for-agentic-ai-vcgvkme6v) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [NVIDIA Vera CPU Delivers High Performance, Bandwidth, and Efficiency for AI Factories](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-vera-cpu-delivers-high-performance-bandwidth-and-efficiency-for-ai-factories-5rfcdxay5) · NVIDIA Developer · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Perplexity signs up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU as the chipmaker pushes past AI accelerators](https://daily.dev/posts/perplexity-signs-up-for-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-as-the-chipmaker-pushes-past-ai-accelerators-zbx909l49) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia](https://daily.dev/posts/jensen-huang-says-he-s-found-a-brand-new-200b-market-for-nvidia-ptgeampez) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/modal-says-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes-wuomvr10h) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/modal-says-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes-wuomvr10h","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/modal-says-nvidia-s-vera-cpu-doubles-throughput-for-its-ai-sandboxes-wuomvr10h"},"datePublished":"2026-10-19T18:13:21.108Z","dateModified":"2026-10-19T18:13:46.529Z","description":"Modal plans to shift its AI agent sandbox product onto Nvidia's new Arm-based Vera CPU, marking its first move away from x86 chips from Intel and AMD. 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