Nvidia launches Vera Rubin: up to 5x faster than Blackwell for AI
Jensen Huang told CES 2026 that Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS among its users.
At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched the company's new AI computing platform, Vera Rubin, saying: "Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production."
Rubin succeeds Blackwell, which itself replaced Hopper.
What's inside
The platform is made of six separate chips:
- the Rubin GPU at the centre
- a new Vera CPU designed for agentic reasoning
- upgraded BlueField and NVLink
- a new external storage tier for KV cache
How fast?
By Nvidia's own tests:
| vs Blackwell | |
|---|---|
| Model training | 3.5x faster |
| Inference | 5x faster, up to 50 petaflops |
| Inference compute per watt | 8x more |
Who will use it
Nearly every major cloud provider, including OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS, plus HPE's Blue Lion supercomputer and the Doudna supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Huang has estimated that $3 trillion to $4 trillion will be spent on AI infrastructure over the next five years.
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