** Shares of cloud infrastructure firm CoreWeave CRWV.O rise ~4% to $76.7 premarket

** CRWV signs a multi-year deal with Perplexity to support its inference workloads on CoreWeave Cloud and pilot new services across both cos

** As part of deal, CoreWeave will also roll out Perplexity Enterprise Max across its organization

** Up to last close, CRWV had risen 3% YTD

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru)

((HarshitaMary.Varghese@thomsonreuters.com))