{"id":989040,"date":"2026-01-31T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989040"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:49:31","slug":"perplexity-signs-750-million-ai-cloud-deal-with-microsoft-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/31\/perplexity-signs-750-million-ai-cloud-deal-with-microsoft-bloomberg-news-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity signs $750 million AI cloud deal with Microsoft, Bloomberg News reports"},"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 \u200bMicrosoft Foundry as its \u200bprimary 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 \u200bMicrosoft Foundry as its \u200bprimary 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-989040","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\/989040","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=989040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}