By Joel South
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 13:59:00
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) is adding another high-profile name to its customer roster. Perplexity, the AI-powered search company, has signed a multi-year partnership to run AI inference workloads on CoreWeave’s cloud infrastructure, with CRWV shares rising approximately 5.7% in pre-market trading on the news.
Under the agreement, Perplexity will power next-generation inference workloads on CoreWeave’s platform using dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters. The infrastructure will support Perplexity’s rapidly growing AI products and its Sonar and Search API ecosystem. CoreWeave will also deploy Perplexity Enterprise Max across its own organization, allowing employees to search the web and internal knowledge, conduct multi-step research, analyze data, and work with advanced AI models within a unified platform.
Perplexity has already begun running inference workloads using CoreWeave Kubernetes Service as part of the initial phase of deployment and is leveraging W&B Models to train, fine-tune, and manage models from experimentation to production. The collaboration highlights Perplexity’s multi-cloud strategy while reinforcing CoreWeave’s position as a specialized infrastructure provider for AI companies operating production-scale systems.
CoreWeave SVP of Revenue Max Hjelm said the partnership reflects the growing demand for infrastructure designed specifically for real-world AI deployment. “AI applications running in production require more than just…
