How CoreWeave (CRWV)'s Perplexity Deal Expands Its Role in AI Inference Infrastructure

CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of the cheap AI stocks to buy in 2026.

On March 4, 2026, CoreWeave announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Perplexity to support the latter’s AI inference workloads on CoreWeave Cloud and to pilot new services across both organizations. The company said Perplexity will run next-generation inference workloads on CoreWeave’s platform under the agreement.

CoreWeave stated that Perplexity will use dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-powered clusters, which the company said are intended to support Perplexity’s growth and the requirements of its Sonar and Search API ecosystem. CoreWeave also said it will roll out Perplexity Enterprise Max internally so employees can search the web and internal knowledge, conduct multi-step research, analyze data, and work with advanced AI models within one platform.

The release also said Perplexity has already begun running inference workloads with CoreWeave Kubernetes Service in the initial deployment phase and is using W&B Models for training, fine-tuning, and model management from experimentation to production. CoreWeave described the collaboration as part of Perplexity’s multi-cloud strategy and as evidence of CoreWeave’s role as a specialized AI cloud provider for production AI systems.

CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is an AI cloud infrastructure company that provides a platform, tools, and technical support for building and scaling AI workloads.

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