Perplexity AI's $750M Azure Escapade: A New Era of Multi-Cloud Dominance
In an awe-inspiring move, Perplexity AI has inked a colossal $750 million deal with Microsoft Azure, while still giving a warm hug to its primary cloud provider, AWS. This multi-cloud venture ushers in frontier AI models from the big guns like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI through Microsoft's Foundry. Despite past legal duels with Amazon and professing undying love for AWS, Perplexity is reshaping the AI landscape with its strategic cloud dance.
Feb 1