{"id":989020,"date":"2026-01-31T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989020"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:04:10","slug":"perplexity-signs-750-million-ai-cloud-deal-with-microsoft-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/31\/perplexity-signs-750-million-ai-cloud-deal-with-microsoft-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity signs $750 million AI cloud deal with Microsoft: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 \u2060million agreement with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud service, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people \u200cfamiliar with \u200cthe matter. <\/p>\n<p>The three-year deal will allow Nvidia-backed Perplexity to \u200crun a range of AI models through Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry program, including systems from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perplexity has chosen Microsoft Foundry as its primary AI platform for model sourcing under \u200ca \u200dnew multi-year agreement,&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson \u200dtold Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Perplexity has signed a $750 \u2060million agreement with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud service, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people \u200cfamiliar with \u200cthe matter. The three-year deal will allow Nvidia-backed Perplexity to \u200crun a range of AI models through Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry program, including systems from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, the report said. &#8220;Perplexity has chosen Microsoft Foundry as its primary AI platform for model sourcing under \u200ca \u200dnew multi-year agreement,&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson \u200dtold Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}