CoreWeave, Inc. announced a multi‑year strategic partnership with AI search engine Perplexity on March 4, 2026. Under the agreement, Perplexity will run its next‑generation inference workloads on CoreWeave’s cloud infrastructure, leveraging dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72‑powered clusters.
The deal also includes a pilot of Perplexity Enterprise Max within CoreWeave’s environment and the use of CoreWeave’s Kubernetes Service for initial deployment, positioning the partnership to support Perplexity’s rapidly expanding AI product suite.
For CoreWeave, the partnership adds a high‑growth, high‑margin AI‑native customer to its portfolio, broadening its client base beyond its largest anchor accounts. The company’s Q4 2025 results—$1.57 billion in revenue and a $66.8 billion backlog—highlight the scale of its operations, while the new partnership is expected to generate additional recurring revenue and strengthen its competitive moat in the AI infrastructure market.
Perplexity benefits from CoreWeave’s cutting‑edge hardware, with the GB200 NVL72 clusters providing the raw compute power needed to scale its AI search engine and new services. The partnership aligns with Perplexity’s multi‑cloud strategy and supports its rapid valuation growth, which reached $20 billion in September 2025, as the company processes over 1.5 billion questions monthly.
Max Hjelm, Senior Vice President of Revenue at CoreWeave, said, 'We're proud to partner with Perplexity as they scale their inference workloads on CoreWeave's AI cloud.' He added, '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.' Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity, noted, '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,' and added, '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.'
The partnership signals a strategic alignment that could accelerate both companies’ growth trajectories, deepen CoreWeave’s foothold in the AI cloud market, and provide Perplexity with the high‑performance compute necessary to sustain its expanding user base.
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