CoreWeave and Perplexity Partner on AI Inference Using NVIDIA GB200 Systems

CoreWeave specializes in GPU-based AI cloud infrastructure, while Perplexity competes with generative AI search and question-answering services. Search services must process large volumes of queries in real time, making inference speed, capacity and reliability critical to competition. The partnership also reflects AI startups’ continued adoption of specialized cloud clusters to make model deployment and scaling easier.

CoreWeave and Perplexity have entered a strategic partnership under which Perplexity will deploy AI inference workloads on dedicated CoreWeave clusters equipped with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, supporting Sonar and the Search API. As of July 20, 2026, the companies had not disclosed the formal signing date, contract value, deployment schedule or cluster size.