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Perplexity Signs $750 Million AI Cloud Deal with Microsoft, Bloomberg News Reports
The $750 million deal allows Perplexity to deploy AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI on Microsoft Azure while maintaining AWS as its preferred cloud provider.
- Recently, Perplexity signed a three-year, $750 million deal to run workloads on Microsoft Azure using Microsoft Foundry services for AI model deployment.
- Founded in 2022 by Arvind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski, Perplexity was recently valued at $20b after a $200m raise last September.
- According to the start-up, the deal will enable Perplexity to deploy AI models via Microsoft Foundry, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI.
- For Microsoft, the deal boosts efforts to position Azure as the go-to place for AI applications and could accelerate Perplexity's growth, pressuring competitors like Google.
- Despite the Azure pact, Perplexity says Amazon Web Services remains its preferred cloud provider while facing Amazon's November lawsuit alleging `computer fraud`, a 2024 New York Times `cease and desist` notice, a BBC legal threat, and delisting by Cloudflare for alleged stealth crawling.
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The American Artificial Intelligence Star Perplexity concluded a 750 million-dollar agreement with Microsoft for the use of the Azure cloud platform, reported Bloomberg, reading family sources of the discussions.
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