Crusoe and Perplexity Announce Multi-Year Partnership Across Full Model Lifecycle

Agreement spans frontier model development and managed inference in production on Crusoe's vertically integrated AI infrastructure

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crusoe, 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.

"The fastest-moving AI companies need infrastructure that keeps pace across the entire model lifecycle and scales with them as they grow," said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO, Crusoe. "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."

Perplexity'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.

"Running AI at Perplexity's scale means every millisecond of latency is felt by users. Crusoe is built around exactly that constraint. It’s high-throughput, low-latency inference backed by next-generation hardware," said Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO, Perplexity.

"Modern AI requires a unified computing architecture from research to deployment," said Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Infrastructure Solutions at NVIDIA. “Powered by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and NVIDIA InfiniBand, Crusoe Cloud enables Perplexity to train, fine-tune, and serve frontier models in production with the speed and efficiency agentic AI demands."

About Crusoe
As the AI factory company, Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. The company provides a reliable, scalable, cost-effective, energy-first solution for AI infrastructure. By harnessing large-scale energy sources, building AI-optimized data centers, and delivering a powerful AI cloud platform, Crusoe empowers its customers and partners to build the future faster. For more information, visit crusoe.ai.

About Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI agent platform focused on accurate AI. Founded in 2022, the company’s mission is to power the world’s curiosity. Perplexity began by revolutionizing search with its AI answer engine, which now powers AI agents to learn in real time while completing tasks. Perplexity’s flagship product is Perplexity Computer, a model-agnostic orchestrator of AI agents across tools, files, chips, devices, and more. 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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