CoreWeave Announces Agreement to Power Perplexity's AI Inference Workloads
CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV), The Essential Cloud for AI™, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Perplexity to support its inference workloads on CoreWeave Cloud and pilot new services across both organizations.
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Perplexity leverages CoreWeave Cloud for AI inference workloads.
Perplexity builds AI-native products and services that operate continuously in real-world environments, where inference performance and reliability directly impact user experience. The CoreWeaveCloud platform is purpose-built to meet these requirements, delivering consistent performance with low latency, predictable cost characteristics, and the ability to scale rapidly as usage grows. CoreWeave enables customers to move from development to sustained production without re-architecting systems or tooling.
Under the agreement, Perplexity will power its next-generation inference workloads on CoreWeave's platform. By utilizing dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters, CoreWeave ensures that its infrastructure keeps pace with Perplexity's rapid growth and the sophisticated requirements of the Sonar and Search API ecosystem. CoreWeave will also roll out Perplexity Enterprise Max across its organization, enabling employees to search the web and internal knowledge, run deep multi-step research, visualize and analyze data, and work with the most advanced AI models available — all within one platform.
"We're proud to partner with Perplexity as they scale their inference workloads on CoreWeave's AI cloud," said Max Hjelm, senior vice president of revenue at CoreWeave. "AI applications running in production require more than just access to raw infrastructure – they require best-in-class performance and reliability as well as a cloud platform designed end-to-end for AI that simplifies compute operations."
"We were impressed by the combination of CoreWeave's technical aptitude and partner-first mindset that help AI-native companies accelerate their growth and scaling goals," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. "CoreWeave is an essential partner in our efforts to optimize our infrastructure and the models we use to provide Perplexity users across industries with the strongest AI tools and agents on the market."
Perplexity has begun running inference workloads with CoreWeave Kubernetes Service as part of the initial phase of the deployment and is leveraging W&B Models to help train, fine-tune, and manage models from experimentation to production. The collaboration reflects Perplexity's multi-cloud strategy and underscores CoreWeave's role as a specialized AI cloud provider for companies operating advanced AI systems in high-demand production environments.
CoreWeave consistently sets new standards for performance, demonstrated by industry-leading MLPerf benchmark results and its position as the only AI cloud to earn top Platinum ranking in both SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX™ 1.0 and 2.0, which evaluate AI cloud performance, efficiency, and reliability.
About CoreWeave
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to move at the pace of innovation, building and scaling AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave serves as a force multiplier by combining superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs. Established in 2017, CoreWeave completed its public listing on Nasdaq (CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
About Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI company that builds products and services on accurate AI. Founded in 2022, the company's mission is to power the world's curiosity. They are the makers of the Perplexity answer engine, which draws from credible sources and deep research to answer questions with in-line citations, and the Comet Browser, the first AI-native web browser and harness for the powerful AI agent, the Comet Assistant. Perplexity is also the maker of Perplexity Computer, a massively multimodel orchestration of AI across tools, files, code creation, persistent memory and the open web. Each month, Perplexity answers more than 1.5 billion questions globally. Perplexity is available in the App Store and online at https://perplexity.com.
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