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.
We're sharing new research on our post‑training approach, which teaches the Perplexity Computer agent to learn from real user sessions by imitating good trajectories and explicitly correcting avoidable mistakes like bad tool calls (even when the overall traje…
GPT-6 Sol is now available to all Perplexity users. On our Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) evals, it outperforms Opus 5 at one-fifth the price. Sol will become the “Light” Effort orchestrator for Computer users, while Astra remains the orchestrator for "High"…
/btw to initiate side chats inside a Computer session with a shared snapshot of the context. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: We launched side chat in Computer. Ask a quick question about a Computer task in a separate, read-only side chat while the main task keeps g…
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available to all Perplexity Computer users. On our Wide-And-Deep-Research evals, it compares favorably to Fable 5.1 at a fraction of the cost. Opus 5.5 will become the “Standard” Effort orchestrator on Computer for all Pro and Max users…
Introducing Perplexity Research Fellowship: a program for early-career researchers, engineers, and analysts from any technical or quantitative discipline to work on AI research.
Seedance and MiniMax H3 now on Perplexity Computer for detailed video generation workflows! Best used when creating web apps and creative materials that involve using several different tools together alongside the video model. Enjoy! [Quoting @perplexity_ai]:…
AI is the OS. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: You can now connect apps from the Computer homepage composer. Live now on the web for all Computer users.
Computer is the best multi model harness for long horizon agentic workloads. It now has a few presets for different effort (cost and intelligence levels) that we’ve seen to work best for our users, with toggles to customize even further for power users. [Quot…
Coding agents require parallel searches across docs, filtered results from official docs, and the ability to extract detailed snippets. pplx-search-sdk supports all of these, and we have a new cookbook live. [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: A new Perplexity Search…
We built a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, a key-value database for fast web content fetches. This was done with two engineers and hundreds of persistent Computer agents over two months. Migrating to our in-house database will save us up to a hundred million do…
We’re expanding our work with @nvidia to bring fully local AI to Microsoft Windows PCs with RTX GPUs. Unmetered local intelligence on every Windows PC running on NVIDIA hardware and Perplexity harness. Enjoy! [Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Portable Computer is now…
Computer is turning into a workspace of humans and AIs. [Quoting @AskPerplexity]: You can now tag coworkers in Computer sessions. Use @ to mention and share a session with someone. Available now on the web for all Computer users.
Quite an important take. Economists and their theories are outdated to measure the benefits of AI. AI is already saving people a lot of time and money that doesn’t get measured. [Quoting @DavidDeutschOxf]: I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT.…
Perplexity Computer makes you money. [Quoting @CoinbaseDev]: Where are agentic traders coming from? Here's the breakdown of where agentic trading volume came from last week: Perplexity - 26.8% Claude - 19.3% Grok - 15.3% ChatGPT - 1.1% Claude Code - 0.7% CLI/…
🦀🦀🦀 [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: 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.
Wow! [Quoting @deepseek_ai]: 🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher…
Perplexity Search inside Hermes. Perplexity's index currently includes 450B+ high-quality URLs. Rapidly advancing to a trillion by EOY with high-quality snippets. [Quoting @perplexitydevs]: Perplexity Search API is now available in Hermes Agent. Search API gi…
I have admired @Teknium and @NousResearch for relentless product execution and taste. Really glad to have Perplexity Search inside the Hermes Agent harness! [Quoting @NousResearch]: You can now use the Perplexity Search API in Hermes Agent
Monumental accomplishment! [Quoting @OpenAI]: We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation mode…
We have started serving a lot of our inference on NVLink Blackwells. Vera Rubins next! [Quoting @NVIDIAAIInfra]: What does it take to deliver high-quality results in seconds at massive scale? @perplexity_ai serves 50M+ queries daily across 15 models, includin…
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