Perplexity AI struck a $750 million, three-year pact with Microsoft to leverage Azure's Foundry platform, Bloomberg reported. The deal lets Perplexity deploy models from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI while maintaining AWS as its core provider, and comes amid an ongoing Amazon lawsuit over Perplexity’s agentic shopping tool Comet. The agreement boosts Azure's multi-model positioning and provides infrastructure redundancy for Perplexity.
Key Points
- 1Secures $750M, three-year Azure Foundry contract to deploy OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI models
- 2Aligns Perplexity with Microsoft to gain model diversity and infrastructure redundancy amid rapid growth
- 3Raises legal and platform risks as Amazon lawsuit over Comet continues, affecting agentic e-commerce use
Scoring Rationale
Confirmed $750M multi-year Azure pact strongly shifts cloud competition; limited by ongoing legal dispute and retained AWS dependency.
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