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

Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, 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.”

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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.”