TLDR
- CoreWeave stock rose over 4% in premarket trading after announcing a multi-year deal with Perplexity
- Perplexity will run AI inference workloads on CoreWeave’s platform using NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters
- The deal supports Perplexity’s Sonar and Search API ecosystem as its user base grows
- CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said the deal helps diversify its customer base beyond existing clients
- CoreWeave will also deploy Perplexity Enterprise Max internally for its own employees
CoreWeave stock jumped more than 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the AI cloud company announced a multi-year strategic partnership with AI search firm Perplexity.
Today CoreWeave announced a multi-year partnership with @Perplexity_AI to power their next-gen AI inference workloads.
Through this agreement, Perplexity will utilize dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 clusters on CoreWeave Cloud to scale their Sonar and Search API ecosystem with low…
— CoreWeave (@CoreWeave) March 4, 2026
The deal was first reported by Axios. Under the agreement, Perplexity will run its next-generation AI inference workloads on CoreWeave’s cloud platform.
Perplexity will use dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters to handle those workloads. The setup is designed to support Perplexity’s Sonar and Search API ecosystem as usage scales.
CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock, CRWV
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator framed the deal as part of a deliberate push to widen the company’s client base. “This partnership reflects a wider mix of emerging AI leaders adopting the CoreWeave platform,” Intrator told Axios. “Like many others, they choose us for our unified AI cloud platform — not just access to capacity.”
Perplexity has already begun running inference workloads using CoreWeave Kubernetes Service as part of the initial rollout phase.
The company is also using W&B Models to train, fine-tune, and manage models from experimentation through to production.
Why Perplexity Chose CoreWeave
Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity, cited both technical capability and a partner-focused approach as key reasons for picking CoreWeave. “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,” he said.
Max Hjelm, SVP of revenue at CoreWeave, added that AI production environments demand more than raw compute. “AI applications running in production require best-in-class performance and reliability as well as a cloud platform designed end-to-end for AI,” he said.
The partnership fits into Perplexity’s broader multi-cloud strategy, giving it flexibility across infrastructure providers.
More Than Just Compute
Beyond infrastructure, CoreWeave will roll out Perplexity Enterprise Max across its own organization. This gives CoreWeave employees access to web and internal search, research tools, data visualization, and AI model access in one platform.
It’s a two-way relationship — CoreWeave gets the infrastructure contract, and Perplexity gets a well-resourced internal deployment of its own product inside a fast-growing AI company.
CoreWeave holds Platinum ranking in both SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 1.0 and 2.0 evaluations, which measure AI cloud performance, efficiency, and reliability. It’s the only AI cloud provider to achieve that ranking in both editions.
CoreWeave went public recently and has been building out its roster of enterprise AI customers. The Perplexity deal adds a high-profile name to that list.
CRWV stock was up more than 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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