Crusoe Signs Multi-Year Cloud Deal With Perplexity AI to Power Its Models – Startup Fortune

Crusoe signed a multi-year cloud computing deal with Perplexity AI on September 15, 2026, providing Nvidia chip based compute and its Enterprise Max product for Perplexity’s 1,800-plus employees. The deal lands just twelve days after Crusoe’s $13 billion Jane Street agreement, as the neocloud pushes its contracted AI infrastructure capacity toward 5 gigawatts.