{"slug": "crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership", "title": "Crusoe and Perplexity announce multi-year partnership", "summary": "Crusoe announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity on September 15, 2026, under which Perplexity will train frontier models on Crusoe's dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72-powered clusters and NVIDIA InfiniBand Solutions and serve them in production through Crusoe's Managed Inference service. Crusoe will also adopt Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max for its 1,800 employees. The agreement runs Perplexity's full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud, which Crusoe describes as the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure.", "body_md": "Featured Story\n\n## 6G is shaping up to be a big multivendor letdown\n\nOperators look increasingly set to deploy 6G with the same spectrum, the same hardware and the same vendors they used for 5G.\n\nAgreement spans frontier model development and managed inference in production on Crusoe's vertically integrated AI infrastructure. #pressrelease\n\nSeptember 15, 2026\n\nCrusoe, the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, today announced a multi-year partnership with Perplexity to power its AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud. Under the agreement, Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on a single platform: training frontier models on Crusoe's dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72-powered clusters, NVIDIA InfiniBand Solutions, and serving them in production through Crusoe's Managed Inference service. In addition, Crusoe will adopt Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max for its 1,800 employees, equipping them with a leading AI platform for web and internal knowledge search, multi-step research, data analysis, and access to frontier AI models.\n\nPerplexity's products operate in real time for millions of users – an environment where inference latency and throughput aren't theoretical benchmarks, they're the product. Crusoe's Managed Inference service is built for exactly this: production-grade inference powered by proprietary optimizations and engineered to optimize for performance and cost across popular models. Crusoe Cloud offers the operational depth and scale to match Perplexity's growth.\n\nRead the full press release [here](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-perplexity-partnership).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership", "canonical_source": "https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership", "published_at": "2026-09-15 16:01:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 16:14:11.167023+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Crusoe", "Perplexity", "Crusoe Cloud", "NVIDIA GB300 NVL72", "NVIDIA InfiniBand Solutions", "Crusoe Managed Inference", "Perplexity Enterprise Pro", "Perplexity Max"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crusoe-and-perplexity-announce-multi-year-partnership.jsonld"}}