Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. Recent coverage centers on Perplexity Computer: a new voice mode rolling out to Pro and Max users on web and Mac apps, new skills in its marketplace including /teardown and the open-source /impeccable, and enterprise admin controls that set floor and ceiling on Effort levels. He also highlighted Particle, a new company optimizing open-weight models for token efficiency.
Personalized healthcare will be disrupted big time with what agents are capable of today [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer turned a shoulder MRI report into an interactive 3D explainer a patient can read. From one anonymized radiology report, it placed all n…
Sharing early evals on Gemini 4 Carbon. Strongest model that we've seen so far for long-form research and answer quality, with a new SoTA on the Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) benchmark. Coming soon to all Perplexity Pro and Max users inside Computer, once we…
This looks good! [Quoting @meetgranola]: Granola now does voice typing. Unlimited words, for free. Granola already writes your meeting notes. Now it can do the typing for you, in any app.
Perplexity Computer can now control your Google Chrome browser from the Perplexity Mac and Windows app. A new chrome extension below to set it up once and you can just ask your agent to do any local browsing tasks on your Chrome browser [Quoting @AskPerplexit…
/teardown by @jakubkrehel now available as a skill in Perplexity Computer. Allows you to break apart any thing and look into it in 3d interactively. 5000 trial credits per user to tinker around. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The Teardown skill by @jakubkrehel, no…
What are some inference tasks that you’re still bottlenecked on intelligence (and not compute or $$) ?
Voice is the natural form factor to use computers. [Quoting @hdjirdeh]: We worked with @therealbradysm, @annuskabarta, and the rest of the multimodal team to bring this incredible new voice mode to Perplexity web. - Natural back-and-forth conversation - Navig…
Particle is a new company focused on optimizing open-weight models to be more token-efficient and cost-efficient to serve. It's been great working together with Suhail and his team ahead of their launch! We look forward to working with them on tools like sear…
Explainer videos are my new favorite way of learning things [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer made a 3:45 explainer on what Apple and Foxconn changed beneath the iPhone Duo's folding screen to build it at scale. It follows one problem in that layer, from how…
Rolling out new voice mode for all Pro and Max users, on web and Mac apps. Allows you to basically talk to your computer to get parallel work streams done.
Fun project on Perplexity Computer: Asked it to design a GTA V mission where you vibecode GTA VI from an in-game phone while the devs call the cops on you for shipping GTA VI before them. It went through the FiveM docs (natives, ped models, server convars, th…
You can use Perplexity Computer to run simulations before testing it in the real world [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer built a futures research lab that keeps working after the task ends. In historical backtests it developed 604 strategies with win rates o…
SF 2049 is bigger now, and it's multiplayer. Computer added: Race rooms on Cloudflare Durable Objects. Create a room, share a six-letter code, meet on the Embarcadero grid, race through gate halos with server-side lap timing. Rooms close themselves when empty…
🎸🎸🎸 [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer mapped all 92 places Johnny Cash names in "I've Been Everywhere," pinning each one as he sings it. Sound on.
/impeccable is now a skill inside Computer. It’s an open-source skill built by @pbakaus to let you build interfaces that don’t look like AI-generated slop. We’re offering 5000 credits per user to get started with the skill. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The Impec…
We're letting admins have a lot more control over how people get to tokenmax internally by being able to set a floor and a ceiling on the Effort level (which correlates to capability and cost). [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Enterprise admins can now set Computer'…
This user gave Perplexity Computer, SSH access to a Raspberry Pi 5 over Tailscale. Overnight, it autonomously turned it into a game console with an arcade UI, toolchains and MCP integration. The console generates GBA, C, Rust and terminal games with automated…
Computer now has more taste in building websites, thanks to @LexnLin’s open-source skill, now integrated inside. We’re giving 5000 credits per user to tinker around. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The Taste Skill by @LexnLin, now in Computer's skills marketplace,…
You can now run the Perplexity Decision Model fully locally on your Mac, without any data leaving your machine. The power of open-weight and compact models! [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: You can now run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally on your Mac, without an API…
Batch API is now live on the Perplexity Agent API. Supports up to 50k requests per file. Each request runs the full agent loop with full support for web_search and fetch_url in batch mode. This lets you run data enrichment workloads at scale, for example, a s…
Not having access to experts is no longer a bottleneck when it comes to learning new things. You can ask AI to make a 5 minute video for you to learn anything. Here’s one on how a fab makes chips. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer wrote and produced a five-m…
We’re offering Computer credits to check for PHP vulnerabilities. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer’s new PHP2Shell skill checks your PHP sites and GitHub deployment configs for exposure, then prioritizes fixes. Tasks that use /php2shell-exposure-check are f…
/graphify now on Computer. We're giving every user 5,000 credits to try this skill that lets you visualize a codebase. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The Graphify skill by @graphify is now in Computer's skills marketplace, available to all Computer users. Turn a c…
Sharing new post-training research on self-distillation + RL (JOLT), done together with @NVIDIAAI. In self-distillation, the same model performs the role of both a teacher and a student. The teacher gets extra information that the student doesn't, and the stu…
Perplexity Decider pareto-optimal on Financial ClaimBench of Vals AI [Quoting @ValsAI]: Today we’re releasing ClaimBench, our new benchmark targeted towards decision models. It tests whether a model can tell if a financial document supports, contradicts, or d…
[Quoting @engadget]: A Mac with at least 36GB of RAM can now run Perplexity AI workflows locally.
You can now run Perplexity Computer fully local on your Mac with no cloud based inference, without WiFi too. Enjoy! [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Perplexity Computer can now run fully local on your Mac. Work with your native Mac apps and local files, and run task…
Big Boy rendered by Computer [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer built Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, as a live isometric SVG with its own renderer and a 7-step operating sequence from cold boiler to 60 mph. The live model ha…
Crusoe is extremely well positioned to become a full-stack cloud: power, compute, and services running on top. Perplexity’s open source sandbox platform SPACE will become part of Crusoe’s Managed AI products. Look forward to more collaborations with them! [Qu…
Cyberpunk inspired Roadster free-roam browser game built by Perplexity Computer:
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