Crusoe Signs Multi-Year Deal to Power Perplexity Training and Inference

Crusoe on September 15, 2026, announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity under which Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud, training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters and serving them in production through Crusoe’s Managed Inference service.

The announcement, datelined San Francisco, also commits Crusoe to adopting Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max for its 1,800 employees. According to the release, the deployment is meant to equip staff with web and internal knowledge search, multi-step research, data analysis, and access to frontier AI models.

The release characterizes Perplexity’s products as operating in real time for millions of users, an environment in which inference latency and throughput are the product rather than theoretical benchmarks. Crusoe said its Managed Inference service is built for production-grade inference powered by proprietary optimizations and engineered for performance and cost across popular models, and that Crusoe Cloud offers the operational depth and scale to match Perplexity’s growth.

Executive Statements

Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller said the fastest-moving AI companies need infrastructure that keeps pace across the entire model lifecycle and scales with them as they grow. “Perplexity is building the future of how people find answers, and Crusoe is a key partner in making that possible, from the first electron to the last token,” Lochmiller…