Perplexity’s $750M Azure Pact: How a Cloud Power Play Could Redefine AI Search, Multimodal Answers, and Agentic Experiences
What does $750 million buy you in AI in 2026? Not just raw compute. It buys speed, reliability, and the right to play—and win—at the frontier. That’s the subtext behind Perplexity’s three-year, $750 million cloud deal with Microsoft Azure, a partnership designed to supercharge a real-time search and answer engine that’s quickly becoming a household…