CoreWeave Inks Deal With Perplexity – CRWV Stock Gains 6% Pre-Market, On Track To Arrest Post Earnings Slump

• Perplexity has begun running its AI inference workloads on CoreWeave’s Kubernetes Service as a part of the early rollout phase.
• CoreWeave will roll out Perplexity’s Enterprise Max subscription plan across its organization.
• CRWV shares have declined nearly 25% after reporting a mixed fourth-quarter print last week.

CoreWeave (CRWV) shares gained over 6% in pre-market trading on Wednesday after the company announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity to support its AI inference workloads and expand services across both companies.

CRWV stock is on track for a first gain in six sessions.

Perplexity will run its next-generation AI systems on CoreWeave’s cloud platform, using dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters. As part of the deal, CoreWeave will deploy Perplexity’s Enterprise Max across its organization. Enterprise Max is Perplexity’s highest-tier subscription plan offering access to advanced AI models, research tools, and search capabilities.

Perplexity has already begun running its AI inference workloads on CoreWeave’s Kubernetes Service as a part of the early rollout phase. It has also begun using CoreWeave’s Weights & Biases (W&B) models to train, fine-tune, and manage its AI systems from testing to full production.

“This partnership reflects a wider mix of emerging AI leaders adopting the CoreWeave platform. Like many…