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We’re rolling out effort controls in Computer’s model selector. Effort presets combine the orchestrator model and reasoning depth to control how deeply and efficiently Computer works through a task. Available now on web. Coming to mobile and desktop soon.
A new Perplexity Search SDK cookbook is live. The recipe fans out focused searches, filters results to official docs, extracts relevant passages, and writes a source-linked brief for your coding agent. Get started: https://pplx.ai/search-sdk-tg
Perplexity Computer will now come pre-installed on HP ZBook Ultra G3a. Use Computer to run complex multi-step work from a simple interface. Computer agents are grounded in accurate deep research and connected to hundreds of tools, now including Autodesk. On supported HP PCs, users can use Portable Computer, our local-first version of Computer, to run tasks entirely on-device with a local model. Portable Computer keeps private data on your machine without using cloud credits. Read more: https://pplx.ai/hp-windows-dc
Portable Computer is now available on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs. Run the harness, agents, and models locally on your PC. Work with local files and connected apps without sending tasks to the cloud. Use frontier cloud models when needed.
Perplexity has joined the Rust Foundation. We believe in supporting the people who build reliable open-source software. By joining the Rust Foundation, our goal is to improve how people and agents build with Rust. SPACE is built in Rust and powers the sandboxes behind Perplexity Computer and the Agent API sandbox tool. Read more about how we built SPACE: https://pplx.ai/space-blog-tg
We're introducing Q2D-Web (Query2Doc-Web), a benchmark and public leaderboard for evaluating retrieval in agentic RAG systems. Q2D-Web tests how embedding models perform on large-scale web search using agent-reformulated search queries. Read more: https://pplx.ai/blog/tq2d-web
GPT-6 Astra is now available in Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers. We evaluated GPT-6 Astra on WANDR. It scored 0.682 at $11.98 per task, the highest score of any model we tested. GPT-6-Astra scored 13.5% higher than Fable 5.1 at 6.1% lower cost, and 27.0% higher than Opus 5 at 3.3% higher cost.
Today we’re open-sourcing Lily, the local inference engine we built for hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer. Lily is specialized for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon, built so on-device compute doesn’t bottleneck Computer tasks. Read more: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/optimizing-on-device-inference-for-apple-silicon
Claude Fable 5.1 is now available in Perplexity Computer for Pro and Max subscribers. It ranked first in our August WANDR evaluation at 0.601 and $12.76 per task, a 21% higher score and 37% lower cost than Fable 5.
Introducing hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer. Computer can start a task in the cloud, then move to a local model that runs on your Mac. Use it for steps involving private files or sensitive data. Available today in the Perplexity Mac app.
GLM 5.3 is now available in Perplexity Computer. Built for long-context, multimodal agent workloads, it beat GLM 5.2 on WANDR, our benchmark for large-scale, evidence-backed research.
Today we’re launching Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Portable Computer is a fully local version of Perplexity Computer, where the entire runtime: orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, agent harness all run on your local hardware. No cloud dependency.
