NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell Set New Standard for Agentic AI Performance per Watt
NVIDIA announced that its Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms set a new standard for agentic AI performance per watt. AI agents have expanded inference into multi-step workflows, with average prompt tokens per request growing roughly fourfold across 100 trillion tokens of real-world usage, according to OpenRouter's State of AI report.
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