Perplexity quietly diversifies cloud strategy with Microsoft pact

AI search firm Perplexity has entered a three-year, $750 million cloud agreement with Microsoft, marking its first major cloud deal outside AWS. The arrangement allows Perplexity to run AI models through Microsoft Foundry while maintaining AWS as its primary infrastructure partner. The move signals a cautious shift toward multi-cloud flexibility as Perplexity scales amid rising AI infrastructure costs and strategic tensions in the cloud market.