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Perplexity Computer can automate every part of an e-commerce business. Run Meta ads, email marketing in Klaviyo and Shopify stores directly inside Computer. Get started: https://pplx.ai/ecommerce

We’ve updated voice mode in Perplexity. Work across multiple Computer sessions at once, start new tasks, and create and manage Projects in one voice session. It runs on OpenAI’s gpt-live-1. Available now on the Mac app and web for all Pro and Max subscribers.

You can now run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally on your Mac, without an API key. Decider for Mac is an app that runs the 4B decision model on device. Ask a question about text or an image and get a probability back, all on your machine. pplx.ai/decider-mac-tg

Perplexity Computer can now run fully local on your Mac. Work with your native Mac apps and local files, and run tasks without sending sensitive data to the cloud. The model and the agent both run on your Mac. Available now in the Perplexity Mac app.

Gemini 4 Argon sets a new record on WANDR. It is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers.

NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers, and in Agent API.

Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers. Both generate tokens faster, completing long Computer tasks sooner. Choose Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast.

pplx-decider-v1.1-27b scores the highest on Decision Bench for accuracy, with the lowest cost. It reached 94.5% accuracy across 1071 cases at $0.017 per 1,000 decisions. Full evaluation: https://decisionbench.ai Get Started: https://pplx.ai/decider-bench-tg

We're releasing pplx-embed-v2-late, two late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages with a shared embedding space for cross-model querying. Both models achieve frontier performance and are publicly available on Hugging Face. https://pplx.ai/embed-v2-tg

Perplexity Computer now creates interactive charts and visualizations directly in your thread. For financial data, Computer uses TradingView Lightweight Charts for candlesticks, volume, and moving averages.

We built a new way to train contextual embedding models, which encode each chunk of a document with the whole document in view. pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview sets a new state of the art on ConTEB and turbopuffer's new, privately held context-bench. https://pplx.ai/context-embed-tg

Introducing Automations in Perplexity Computer. Automations are for ongoing work. They can take action in response to event-based triggers or on a schedule. Automations work with your memory, skills, and connected apps like Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Linear. Read more about Automations in Perplexity Computer: https://pplx.ai/automtn-comptr-tg

Agent governance is an engineering problem. We’ve built safeguards into Perplexity’s infrastructure, harnesses, and tools, and put them to work across our products. Today we're sharing how we engineer safer agents: https://pplx.ai/safer-agents-tg

You can now build custom reusable agents in the Perplexity Agent API with Profiles, Skills, and managed connectors. Configure an agent once in the API Portal and reuse it across applications and workflows. A Profile saves the agent's model, instructions, tools, Skills, and managed connectors under one versioned ID. Read more about Profiles: https://pplx.ai/api-agents-tg

We’re partnering with Nvidia and 100+ industry partners to build infrastructure that contains rogue AI agents. In this research, we gave 9 AI models root access inside SPACE and told them to break out. Across 108 runs, none breached the VM boundary. https://pplx.ai/escaping-space-tg

Introducing Fast Search in the Perplexity Search API. Fast Search runs on Photon, our new Rust-based retrieval and ranking service that we built with a small team of engineers and hundreds of agents. It returns 95% of search results in 230 ms or less. How we built Photon: https://perplexity.ai/hub/blog/photon Get started with Fast Search: https://pplx.ai/fast-search-api-tg

Portable Computer for Windows is now available on AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors. It makes it easy to run local AI agents that work with your connected apps and local files. Kick off tasks or schedule recurring work that runs entirely on your device.

GPT-6 Sol is now available in Perplexity and Computer. It's now the default Light option in Computer's effort selector.

We've shipped 15 major improvements to Computer in September so far. Effort controls - pick Light, Standard, High, or Ultra and Computer chooses the model and reasoning depth. Click Custom under the slider to select them yourself. Live on web, mobile and desktop soon. GPT-6 Astra - now available for Computer tasks and supporting agents for eligible Pro and Max subscribers. Portable Computer on Windows and Linux - run Computer entirely on your own PC, no cloud dependency. Local work uses no credits. Hybrid compute on Mac - split a task between the cloud and a private on-device model. Sensitive steps stay on your Mac, only de-identified results go to the cloud. Skills marketplace - browse and install reusable Computer skills, and share them across your Enterprise org. Find it under Customize > Skills. Side chat - ask a quick question about a running task in a read-only side chat with /ask, /side, or /btw, without interrupting the main task. Also new: Cmd+K history search, Computer turns for eligible US non-paying accounts, voice noise isolation on iPhone and Mac, Computer for Builders, Microsoft 365 in Ask, Android setup checklist, Omnisend, Higgsfield, and Evernote connectors, and E