Perplexity

Crusoe announced on Sept. 15, 2026 a multi-year partnership under which Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud — training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters with NVIDIA InfiniBand and serving them in production through Crusoe's Managed Inference service. In return Crusoe will deploy Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max to its 1,800 employees; no contract value or capacity figure was disclosed. A named multi-year anchor customer strengthens forward revenue visibility for Crusoe's GPU cloud as it scales its vertically integrated build-out.

Source: Crusoe

Perplexity introduced a 'hybrid compute' capability that splits AI workloads between cloud and on-device processing, keeping confidential files and sensitive tasks local, initially rolling out on Mac.

Source: Engadget

Nvidia is discussing investing in Perplexity as part of an equity round that would value the AI startup at more than $30 billion, according to people with knowledge of the discussion.The round would be worth billions of dollars and boost the startup’s valuation more than 50% from its last financing a year ago, the people said. The proposed deal comes as the two companies have forged stronger business ties and Perplexity’s annualized revenue has climbed to more than $750 million from less than $250 million at the start of the year, thanks in part to Perplexity Computer, an AI agent that professionals use to automate computer tasks.

Source: TheInformation

Canary Data has partnered with Perplexity to bring professional-grade investment research capabilities into Perplexity's AI workflows, expanding the platform's financial data offerings.

Source: FinancialContent