Perplexity signs a multi-year agreement to train and serve its models on Crusoe Cloud GB300 NVL72 clusters

The parties

• PerplexityBuyer
• Crusoecompany pageProvider

The source

Crusoe press release, 2026-09-15Company press release

Multi-year partnership: Perplexity trains frontier models on Crusoe's dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters with InfiniBand and serves them through Crusoe's Managed Inference service. Crusoe also adopts Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max for its 1,800 employees. No value, capacity, GPU count or term is stated.

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