Perplexity announced GPT-6 Astra for Computer tasks and supporting agents for eligible Pro and Max subscribers, plus a public Skills Marketplace for reusable Computer capabilities. The update also highlights local…
Perplexity introduced "effort controls" (from Light to Ultra) for Perplexity Computer, allowing users to balance model selection, reasoning depth, and cost.
Perplexity Computer introduced 'effort controls' (Light, Standard, High, Ultra), allowing users to balance model reasoning depth and cost for specific tasks.
Perplexity Computer introduced 'effort controls' that allow users to adjust the reasoning level and model selection for tasks, ranging from 'Light' to 'Ultra'.
Perplexity released a version of its 'Portable Computer' tool for Windows, allowing users to keep sensitive work local while automating tasks and long workflows.
Perplexity announced CobbleDB, a purpose-built storage layer for AI search designed to reduce latency and infrastructure costs. Initial testing indicates a 5x improvement in batch-read latency and approximately 20%…
Perplexity introduced CobbleDB, a high-performance key-value storage layer designed for AI search workloads, promising lower latency and reduced costs.
Perplexity has expanded its 'Portable Computer' feature to Windows, allowing Pro and Max subscribers to run local AI models on compatible PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs without cloud dependency.
Perplexity has updated its Research feature with Advanced Deep Research and introduced Learn Mode for educational use, alongside an Email Assistant for Max subscribers.
Perplexity introduced a credit-based system for its new premium product, Computer on Perplexity, offering varying monthly allocations for Pro and Max subscribers.
Perplexity announced that its Sonar chat completions endpoint will be retired on September 27, 2026, with users required to migrate to the Agent API. The Agent API offers enhanced capabilities, including multi-step…
Perplexity Health is a new personalized health experience for US-based Pro and Max subscribers, integrating data from medical records, wearables, and wellness apps to provide context-aware insights.
Perplexity introduced Q2D-Web, a private benchmark and public leaderboard designed to evaluate first-stage retrievers in agentic RAG systems at a large, web-scale size.
Perplexity continues to expand its ecosystem integrations, recently highlighting connectivity with tools like Asana, Confluence, Jira, and Google Drive to streamline research and information gathering.
Perplexity is currently updating the Pages experience, with the "Create page" feature temporarily retired and the "Convert to Page" functionality expected to return soon with enhanced capabilities.
Perplexity updated its Advanced Deep Research feature with improved capabilities, such as an enhanced code sandbox for data analysis, direct document processing, and better web-browsing for hard-to-reach sources.
Perplexity is retiring its organization file repository for Enterprise users on October 1, 2026, requiring users to download or migrate their files to Projects or supported File Connectors like Google Drive or…
Perplexity detailed its Lily local inference engine, optimized specifically for Apple silicon to enable high-performance, on-device AI tasks for models like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Perplexity’s Help Center describes Computer as an autonomous AI worker that researches, creates documents and apps, manages email, connects to services such as Gmail, Outlook, GitHub, Slack, and Notion, and supports…
Perplexity introduced Hybrid Compute for Mac, allowing tasks to be split between cloud-based AI and local models on Apple Silicon to enhance privacy and performance. An on-device PII classifier has also been…
Perplexity introduced PII-TRACE, a new benchmark for evaluating PII detectors, and PII-Tracer, a compact 0.6B model designed to detect and redact sensitive data locally before it leaves the device.
Perplexity introduced hybrid compute for its Mac app, allowing users to run local models on Apple silicon alongside cloud-based models for improved privacy and efficiency.
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, a local-first AI agent system for the NVIDIA DGX Spark that runs models locally to ensure data privacy and zero inference costs for high-volume tasks.
Perplexity released PII-TRACE, a new benchmark for evaluating personally identifiable information (PII) detectors, alongside PII-Tracer, a compact 0.6B model designed to run locally to detect PII before data is sent to…
An informative article that outlines seven signs of AI hallucinations and provides a practical checklist for verifying AI-generated claims and citations.
Perplexity released the Perplexity Computer MCP Server, enabling AI assistants to delegate complex, multi-step tasks to Perplexity Computer via the Model Context Protocol.
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, a version of its AI agent platform that runs locally on NVIDIA hardware, such as the NVIDIA DGX Spark, for enhanced privacy and efficiency.
Perplexity has expanded its educational outreach through a series of workshops and webinars, including sessions on Perplexity Computer, financial research, and AI workflows for business and marketing teams.
Perplexity provides details on 'Model Council,' a research feature that executes user queries across multiple AI models simultaneously to generate a synthesized answer.
Perplexity introduced Brain, a structured knowledge wiki component for the Computer memory system that enhances context navigation, correctness, and recall for agentic workflows.
Perplexity highlighted the "Model Council" research feature, which runs a user's question across multiple AI models simultaneously to synthesize a single, unified answer.
Perplexity launched "Computer in Email," allowing users to initiate agentic tasks directly via email, with outputs delivered as attachments or replies in the same thread.
Perplexity updated its Agent API with 'Presets,' offering maintained bundles of settings (models, search configs, system prompts) to streamline developer workflows.
Perplexity released guidance on utilizing 'Perplexity Computer' to enhance small business productivity by connecting to over 400 existing business tools.
Perplexity announced 'Computer in Email,' allowing users to initiate agentic tasks directly within email threads by emailing computer@perplexity.com. The feature supports various workflows, including document analysis…
Perplexity added a new connector allowing users to integrate Microsoft 365, specifically SharePoint and OneDrive, to search and interact with internal documents directly within the platform.