{"id":437802,"date":"2026-01-30T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:05:09","slug":"perplexity-signs-750-million-ai-cloud-deal-with-microsoft-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437802\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity signs $750 million AI cloud deal with Microsoft, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 29 (Reuters) &#8211; AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 million agreement with \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> to use its Azure \u200ccloud service, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing \u200cpeople familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The three-year deal will allow Nvidia-backed Perplexity to run a range of AI models through \u2060Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry program, \u200cincluding systems from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>, Anthropic and xAI, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Perplexity \u200dand Microsoft did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">A Perplexity spokesperson confirmed \u200bto Bloomberg that it was partnering \u200cwith Microsoft &#8220;for access to frontier models from X, OpenAI and Anthropic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The spokesperson told Bloomberg Perplexity has not shifted spending from Amazon Web Services, the startup&#8217;s \u2060main cloud provider, as \u200bpart of the Microsoft \u200bdeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Amazon sued Perplexity last year over the startup&#8217;s &#8220;agentic&#8221; shopping feature, which \u200duses automation \u2060to place orders for users, saying it covertly accessed Amazon customer accounts \u2060and disguised automated activity as human browsing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting \u200cby Mihika Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing \u200cby Pooja Desai)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29 (Reuters) &#8211; AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 million agreement with \u200bMicrosoft to use its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,13661,27673,1281,12741,74],"class_list":["post-437802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-cloud-service","tag-microsoft","tag-perplexity","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}